U.S. Navy officials announced Monday that the next Arleigh Burke-class destroyer built by Bath Iron Works will be named for former U.S. Democratic Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan.
The Navy held a naming ceremony Monday along the Detroit riverfront at the General Motors Renaissance Center. It was attended by Navy Secretary Ray Mabus.
Senate Investigations subcommittee Chairman Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., left, and Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, question Goldman Sachs executives on the firm’s role in the global financial crisis at a May 2014 hearing on Capitol Hill. Photos by The Associated Press
Former U.S. Sen. Carl Levin watches the unveiling of a photo of the USS Carl M. Levin during a ceremony Monday in Detroit. The Associated Press
The destroyer is expected to enter the fleet in 2020.
Levin served in the Senate from 1979 to 2015, and was the ranking Democrat on the Armed Services Committee.
Levin, a six-term senator, was ultimately the fourth longest-serving member of the U.S. Senate.
He currently is senior counsel at a Detroit law firm and chair of the Levin Center at Wayne State University’s Law School.
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