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USS Alaska (SSBN-732), a Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine, was the fourth ship of the United States Navy to be named for the 50th state. The contract to build her was awarded to the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation in Groton, ConnecticutGroton is a town located on the Thames River in New London County, Connecticut. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 39,907. Groton is the home of the Electric Boat Corporation, the major contractor for submarine work for the US Navy, on 27 February 1978 and her keel was laid down on 9 March 1983. She was launchedThe ceremonies involved in naming and launching naval ships are based in traditions thousands of years old. A Babylonian narrative dating from the 3rd millennium BC describes the completion of a ship: :Openings to the water I stopped; :I searched for crac on 12 January 1985 sponsored by Mrs. Catherine Stevens, and commissionedThe ceremonies involved in commissioning ships into a military force are based in traditions thousands of years old. Ship naming and launching are the inseparable elements which endow a ship hull with her identity. Yet, just as many developmental mileston on 25 January 1986, with Captain P.L.Callahan in command of the Blue Crew and Captain C.J. Chotvacs in command of the Gold Crew.

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See USS Alaska for other ships of the same name.

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Based on information from the Naval Vessel Register.