US Navy christens guided-missile destroyer Jeremiah Denton

The US Navy and shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) christened the future USS Jeremiah Denton (DDG 129), the third flight III Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer to be built at HII's Ingalls Shipbuilding, in a ceremony in Pascagoula, Mississippi, on Saturday, June 28.

The ship’s name honours the late former US Senator and US Navy Rear Admiral Jeremiah Denton Jr, a Vietnam War veteran who was awarded the Navy Cross for his heroism as a prisoner of war. Admiral Denton spent 34 years as a naval aviator, including eight years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.