Memo To Self: File Under Cool -- North Dakota To Get Its Own Submarine

The Dickinson Press is reporting:

North Dakota will get a special present today, its 124th birthday, when the nuclear-powered attack submarine, the USS North Dakota, is christened in Groton, Conn. It’s the second U.S. Navy ship to be named for the state. The first was a battleship that was in service from 1910 until 1923. 

The ship is part of the Virginia-class attack submarines, designed to seek and destroy enemy submarines and surface ships. It will carry Tomahawk missiles, as well as torpedoes and other munitions.

Home port: Fort Lincoln, North Dakota, on the Missouri River, 7 miles south of Mandan