PIERRE — Excitement is building in Pierre for a Navy ship that will bear that name and the building of that boat hasn’t even started. Pierre Mayor Steve Harding is going to Austal U-S-A in Mobile, Alabama Friday for the first part in the process, the keel laying…
U-S Senator John Thune’s daughter Larissa Hargens is the Pierre’s sponsor. Harding says it will take two years to get the vessel into service…
After christening, the last step before a Navy ship is ready for use is the commissioning. That activity falls on the namesake of the ship, in this case the City of Pierre. Mike Mehlhaff is vice-chair of the U-S-S Pierre Commissioning Committee…
More information on the U-S-S Pierre can be found by searching U-S-S Pierre on Facebook or going to usspierre.org.
