Bath Iron Works christens USS Michael Monsoor

BATH, Maine, June 20 (UPI) -- General Dynamics Bath Iron Works christened the USS Michael Monsoor, the U.S. Navy's second Zumwalt-class guided-missile destroyer, at a ceremony Saturday at Bath's Maine shipyard.

The ship is named for Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael Monsoor, who was killed in Ramadi, Iraq, in 2006.

Monsoor's mother, the ship's sponsor, broke a champagne bottle against DDG 1001's bow to make it official, General Dynamics said in a statement.

The ship's keel was laid in May 2013.

The next-generation surface combatant class is capable of conducting anti-air warfare, anti-submarine warfare and anti-surface warfare while operating in carrier strike, surface action, amphibious ready and underway replenishment groups, the company said.

The USS Zumwalt recently passed its acceptance trials, the ship's electronics developer Raytheon announced Friday.