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USS Montpelier (SSN-765), a Los Angeles-class submarine, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for Montpelier, Vermont. The contract to build her was awarded to Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company in Newport News, Virginia on 6 February 1987 and her keel was laid down on 19 May 1989. 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 23 August 1991 sponsored by Mrs. Nancy Hayes Sununu, 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 13 March 1993 with Commander Victor Fiebig in command.

Montpelier is scheduled to enter the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in

See USS Montpelier for other ships of the same name.

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This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register as well as various press releases and news stories.