Hawaii passes alpha trials with flying colors

Late Saturday afternoon, Pre-Commissioning Unit Hawaii transited up the Thames River to the Electric Boat shipyard with a broom hoisted on its sail, a proud Navy tradition signifying a “clean sweep” on the ship’s alpha sea trials.

Hawaii, the third of the Virginia-class nuclear powered fast attack submarines, went to sea for the first time for a two-day period where all of the ship’s systems were initially tested.