MARINETTE, WI (WRN) – More U.S. Navy ships are being built in northeast Wisconsin.
The keel of USS Cooperstown is being laid in a ceremony today at Fincantieri Marinette Marine.
It’s the 12th littoral combat ship to be built in Marinette and, one of eight under construction there.
The U.S. Senate passed a $717 billion defense appropriations bill August 1st that includes funding for three littoral combat ships in the next fiscal year.
