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Mobile, Ala. (WKRG) — Mobile will be host to the Navy’s USS Donald Cook during Mardi Gras. The ship is scheduled to arrive at the Port of Mobile on Friday (Feb. 9th). USS Donald Cook is a multi-mission destroyer. Public tours will be available once the ship docks. Below is the press release announcing the […]
No date yet, but major ceremonies planned for USS Mobile Updated Dec 10, 2020; The commissioning of the USS Mobile in its namesake city will be a grand occasion when it happens this spring, organizers promised Thursday, though they aren’t yet able to reveal an exact date. “Mobile has hosted many ship commissionings over the years,” said retired Navy Capt. Bill Pfister, the president of the Mobile Council of the U.S. Navy League. “No commissioning is as personal or important as the commissioning of a namesake city’s ship in the city it is named for, and in the place where the sons a...