NEWS RELEASE
INGALLS SHIPBUILDING TO CELEBRATE KEEL AUTHENTICATION OF NATIONAL SECURITY CUTTER KIMBALL (WMSL 756)
Ingalls Shipbuilding will authenticate the keel for the company’s seventh U.S. Coast Guard National Security Cutter, Kimball (WMSL 756), on Friday, March 4. Adm. Paul Zukunft, commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, is the ceremony’s keynote speaker. Kay Bowen Webber Cochran, wife of Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., is the ship sponsor and will have her initials welded onto a keel plate at the end of the ceremony.