Page 11 - USS South Carolina Keel Laying

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Photograph of (from left) Vice Admiral Hyman Rickover, Senator Strom Thurmond, president of the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company Lennis "Bud" Ackerman, Margaret (Middleton) Rivers, Barbara Ackerman, Congressman L. Mendel Rivers, Sr., and Margaret "Peg" Middleton (Rivers) Eastman at the keel laying ceremony for the USS South Carolina. The nuclear-powered guided-missile frigate was built at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company in Viginia. The image was removed from an old photograph album.

Gift of Margaret Middleton Rivers Eastman.