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Coast Guard To Christen Munro Cutter In Pascagoula, Miss.

November 13 2015

USA

The U.S. Coast Guard is set to christen its sixth Bertholf-class national security cutter, reports the Sun Herald (Gulfport, Miss.).

The Munro (WSML-755) will be christened on Saturday at the Ingalls Shipbuilding yard in Pascagoula, Miss.

Adm. Paul Zukunft, the Coast Guard commandant, will be the keynote speaker during the ceremony, reported the Mississippi Press.

The cutter is named after Signalman 1st Class Douglas Munro, the only Coast Guardsmen to receive the Medal of...

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