21 February 2023 Baptism Onboard USS Boxer (LHD 4) SAN DIEGO - USS Boxer (LHD 4) celebrated one of the Navy's oldest traditions with a ceremony in the ship's upper vehicle deck, Feb. 18...
08 August 2022 Namesake’s Great-Great-Grandnephew Baptized Aboard USS Laboon NAVAL STATION NORFOLK, Va. - Continuing a time-honored tradition aboard USS Laboon (DDG 58), a bell baptism service was celebrated Aug. 5 on the ship’s foc'sle for the great-great- grandnephew of the ship’s namesake, Capt. John Francis Laboon...
27 May 2021 A Ceremony to Remember – USS Ross Sailor Reaffirms his Baptism in the Faroe Islands NORTH SEA - Splitting the distance between Iceland and Norway, about four degrees latitude south of the arctic circle, there sits a small, remote archipelago named the Faroe Islands. These islands, an autonomous territory within the kingdom of Denmark, host a community known for its sheep and...