The 377-foot-long submarine will become the USS Colorado when it is commissioned as the 15th in the Virginia class of attack submarines, each costing $2.7 billion. Mabus joined her father, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, and others for the ceremony at Electric Boat shipyard in Groton, Connecticut. The bottle of Balistreri Vineyards wine had been chilled before the ceremony in a bucket of water from the Colorado River. Secretary Mabus said the christening was his last since Democratic President Barack Obama picked him to lead the Navy in 2009. The submarines are being built in a partnership between Electric Boat and Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia.

Source: Fox News December 04, 2016 08:12 UTC