North Kingstown, R.I. (Aug. 27, 2004) - John Weiss, left, a welder with General Dynamics Electric Boat (GDEB), welds Hawaii Governor Linda Lingle's initials into a steel plate as Governor Lingle and John P. Casey, President of GDEB, looks on. Lingle, the sponsor of Precommissioning Unit Hawaii (SSN 776), joined several dignitaries at GDEB's Quonset Point facility in North Kingstown, R.I. for the keel laying ceremony of the Navy's third Virginia-class submarine.
