Navy ship built with WTC steel visits NY

The new Navy assault ship USS New York, built in Louisiana with World Trade Center steel, arrived in its namesake city Monday with a 21-gun salute near the site of the 2001 terrorist attack.


An official commissioning ceremony is scheduled for Saturday.

The ship was scheduled to be built before the terrorist attacks.


About a year later, the announcement came that the ship would bear the name New York to honor the city, state, and those who died.

It is the latest in a line of Navy ships to bear name New York. The others included a Spanish-American War-era cruiser, a battleship that served in World Wars I and II and a nuclear submarine retired from the fleet in 1997.

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