MEDIA ADVISORY--INGALLS SHIPBUILDING TO CHRISTEN NATIONAL SECURITY CUTTER MUNRO

PASCAGOULA, Miss., Nov. 10, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --



What:
Media Day and Christening of the U.S. Coast Guard’s National Security Cutter Munro (WMSL 755)


When:
10:30 a.m. Friday, Media Day (closed-toe shoes required)
10 a.m. Saturday, Christening (media should arrive by 8:45 a.m.)


Where:
Ingalls Shipbuilding Visitor Control Center (Main Gate on christening day)


Who:

• Ship Sponsor Julie Sheehan


• Ingalls Shipbuilding President Brian Cuccias


• Shipbuilders of Munro


• Capt. Thomas King, Munro’s prospective commanding officer

Christening day

• Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Paul Zukunft (keynote speaker), Mrs. Sheehan, Cuccias and Capt. King

Press kit available at: /ingalls-shipbuilding

RSVP: Bill Glenn, Huntington Ingalls Industries, (228) 327-1671, william.glenn@hii-co.com

Please RSVP by 5 p.m. Thursday.

#MunroNSC6 is the hashtag for the event.

HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division will christen the sixth U.S. Coast Guard National Security Cutter, Munro (WMSL 755), on Saturday. Adm. Paul Zukunft, commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, is the ceremony’s keynote speaker. Julie Sheehan, great-niece of the ship’s namesake, Signalman First Class Douglas Munro, is the ship sponsor.

Munro died heroically on Sept. 27, 1942, on Guadalcanal. Having volunteered to evacuate a detachment of Marines who were facing annihilation by a large and unanticipated enemy force, he succeeded in safely extricating them and in doing so was mortally wounded.

For his heroic and selfless actions in the completion of this rescue mission, Munro was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. He is the Coast Guard’s sole recipient of the award.