Laid Down in Virginia
The third ship to be so named by the Navy, Spark was laid down as LST-340 on 17 July 1942 by the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia; launched on 8 November 1942; and commissioned on 26 December 1942.
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Famous quotes containing the words laid down in and/or laid:
“It should be quite clear, then, that there are no criteria to be laid down in general for distinguishing the real from the not real.”
—J.L. (John Langshaw)
“O Jesse had a wife, a mourner all her life
And the children they were brave,
But the dirty little coward that shot Mr. Howard
He laid Jesse James in his grave.”
—Administration in the State of Miss, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)