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Now resting on the seafloor, USS Ogden was launched 60 years ago in New York
Sixty years ago Thursday — on June 27, 1964 — the USS Ogden was launched at the New York Naval Shipyard in Brooklyn. The amphibious transport dock was the fifth ship of its class and the second ship of the U.S. Navy's fleet to bear the name "Ogden," which was given in honor of Ogden, Utah, as well as the British-Canadian fur trapper the city was named for: Peter Skene Ogden. To mark the occasion, the warship was sponsored (or christened) by Janice Shupe Burton, a North Ogden native who was the wife of then-U.S. Rep. Laurence J. Burton. According to their son, also named Laurence ...
