NEW ORLEANS — About 24 tons of steel from the ruins of the World Trade Center is being melted down to form part of a new Navy ship that will be named the USS New York.
Casting of a section called the bow stem was set for Tuesday at a foundry in Amite. The section will later be shipped to Northrop Grumman Corp.’s shipyard at Avondale, just outside New Orleans.
“Symbolically, the World Trade Center steel will be the first part of the ship slicing through the water,” said Ed Winter, a spokesman for Northrop Grumman’s shipbuilding division. “That’s in honor of the victims and the heroes of the 9-11-01 tragedy.”
The steel, primarily from a section of beam about 20 feet long, was salvaged in December from a New York landfill that received much of the debris from the twin towers. It was believed to have been part of the south tower, the second of the skyscrapers hit by hijacked airliners but the first to collapse.
Casting of a section called the bow stem was set for Tuesday at a foundry in Amite. The section will later be shipped to Northrop Grumman Corp.’s shipyard at Avondale, just outside New Orleans.
“Symbolically, the World Trade Center steel will be the first part of the ship slicing through the water,” said Ed Winter, a spokesman for Northrop Grumman’s shipbuilding division. “That’s in honor of the victims and the heroes of the 9-11-01 tragedy.”
The steel, primarily from a section of beam about 20 feet long, was salvaged in December from a New York landfill that received much of the debris from the twin towers. It was believed to have been part of the south tower, the second of the skyscrapers hit by hijacked airliners but the first to collapse.
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