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Officials from Bollinger Shipyards LLC, Lockport, La., joined senior Navy brass pier side in Late August at Bollinger Houma to christen the USNS Navajo. The Navajo is the lead ship of the Navy's new Navajo-class of towing, salvage and rescue (T-ATS) ships. The Navajo-class is a multimission common hull platform that will be deployed to support a range of missions such as towing, rescue, salvage, humanitarian assistance, oil spill response and wide-area search and surveillance operations. The vessels will replace the exist ing Powhatan-class T- ATF fleet ocean tugs and Safeguard-class T-ARS rescue and salvage ships operated by Military Sealift Command. |