Navy to name submarine after the city of Atlanta
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Atlanta is far from the ocean, but it will have a naval vessel named for it again.
Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro announced this week that the Navy will build a Virginia-class attack submarine that will be known as the Atlanta.
It wasn’t immediately clear when the construction will start on the submarine, when it will enter service, or how much it may cost.
In August, the Navy awarded a $1.3 billion contract to the General Dynamics Electric Boat shipyard in Groton, Connecticut, to start buying materials for that and other submarines it will eventually build.
The Navy has recently been naming new submarines in its Virginia class for cities, including Baltimore, San Francisco and Miami.
It would be the fifth Navy vessel named for Georgia’s largest city. The first was a Confederate ironclad captured in 1863 and converted to Union service during the Civil War. The most recent was a Los Angeles-class nuclear attack submarine that served from…