TED STEVENS DDG 128

Ship Name and Designation History

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Arleigh Burke Class (Type III) Guided Missile Destroyer Naming Ceremony 4 January 2019 Keel Laid 9 March 2022 - Launched 15 August 2023 Christened 19 August 2023 USS TED STEVENS DDG-128 Commissioned TBD

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1. USS Ted Stevens DDG-128 Covers Page 1     (2023)

 

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Postmark Type --- Killer Bar Text	Postmark Date	Thumbnail Link To Postmark Image	Thumbnail Link To Cover Image

 

USPS Type 12c "Flagship City" Pascagoula MS

2023-08-19

N/A

Christening, cachet by Richard D. Jones.

 

Other Information

NAMESAKE - Theodore (Ted) Fulton Stevens Sr. (November 18, 1923 – August 9, 2010)
    Stevens was an American politician who served as a United States Senator from Alaska from 1968 to 2009. He was the longest-serving Republican U.S. Senator in history at the time he left office; his record was surpassed in January 2017 by Orrin Hatch from Utah. He was President pro tempore of the United States Senate in the 108th and 109th Congresses from January 3, 2003 to January 3, 2007 and was the third U.S. Senator to hold the title of President pro tempore emeritus.
    Stevens served during World War II in the US Army Air Corps in the China-Burma-India theater with the Fourteenth Air Force Transport Section, which supported the "Flying Tigers", from 1944 to 1946. He and other pilots in the transport section flew C-46 and C-47 transport planes, often without escort, mostly in support of Chinese units fighting the Japanese. Stevens received the Distinguished Flying Cross for flying behind enemy lines, the Air Medal, and the Yuan Hai Medal awarded by the Chinese Nationalist government. He was discharged from the Army Air Forces in March 1946.

The ships sponsors are Catherine Stevens, wife of Theodore Stevens, and Susan Stevens Covich and Lily Stevens Becker, daughters of Theodore Stevens.

 

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