During the ceremony of the baptism of the USS Hyman G. Rickover (SSN 795), the bottle of champagne was divided only from the third time. Reports about it “Interfax”.
Event has passed in the city of Connecticut State Groton. As the agency notes, the tradition of breaking the bottle about the side of the submarine should a woman. Initially, it was planned that this will make the wife of the former head of the US Navy headquarters Jonathan Gherryt Darlyn. But at the last moment, she provided this role to his daughter Sarah, who works in the company General Dynamics.
Woman hit on board twice, but both times the bottle remained the whole. After a small briefing from the military Sarah, it was still possible to split champagne.
Multipurpose nuclear submarine USS USS Hyman G. Rickover (SSN 795) Virginia IV class is capable of carrying 12 Tomahawk winged missiles with a range of 1.6 thousand kilometers. Its length is 115 meters, the displacement reaches 7.8 thousand tons. The cost of the submarine is estimated at 2.7 billion dollars.