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Navy

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Naval Station Mayport. Fla. The work package focuses on work in two of the four engine rooms and includes main machinery room repairs consisting of tanks, boilers, forced draft blowers, steam valves, reduction gears, main feed pumps, main condenser, lube oil pumps, piping.

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DDG 88 Commissioned

USS Preble (DDG 88), built by

Northrop Grumman's Ship Systems sec- tor. was commissioned on November 9, 2002, in Boston,

Mass. Measuring 509.5 ft. (155.1 m), this 9,300- ton ship is named in honor of Commodore

Edward Preble (i 76 1 -1 807), who was appointed a first lieutenant in the Navy in 1798. Connie Rae Clark, wife of

Adm. Vern Clark, USN chief of naval operations, served as the ship's sponsor, and U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, (D-

Mass.), delivered the principal commis- sioning address.

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Navy Christens Chaffee

The newest Arleigh Burke class guid- ed-missile destroyer, the 511 -ft. (155.7- m) Chafee was christened on November 11, 2002, during a ceremony at Bath

Iron Works, Bath, Maine. The ship hon- ors John Hubbard Chafee of

Providence, R.I., who distinguished himself as a U.S. senator, Navy secre- tary, Rhode Island governor, and a

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