USS Arkansas (SSN-800), 20-inch Mahogany Model, Block IV

  

USS Arkansas (SSN-800), 20-inch Mahogany Model. Dive with the USS Arkansas (SSN-800) in this handcrafted 20-inch submarine model.

Each piece is carved from wood and handpainted to provide a piece you'll love. USS Arkansas (SSN-800) is a Virginia-class nuclear powered attack submarine of the United States Navy. She is the twenty-seventh boat of the class and the fifth vessel to be named for the U. She was ordered on 28 April 2014, and named during a ceremony on 15 June 2016 by Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus.

Arkansas's was keel laid on 19 November 2022 at Newport News Shipbuilding. Service History Construction On 27 September 2023, Huntington Ingalls Industries, which oversees Newport News Shipbuilding, announced that the pressure hull of Arkansas had been completed. [4] On 7 December 2024, the submarine was christened by Carlotta Walls LaNier, a member of the Little Rock Nine, at HII's Newport News Shipbuilding Division in Newport News, Virginia.