The US Navy has built a new kind of research ship, which it has planned to name after the late astronaut Mr. Neil Armstrong, who was the first man to go on the moon. He died at 82 and according to report, he was in US navy before he joined NASA.

The announcements have recently come from the department of navy in which it talked about the new research vessel, which is an Auxiliary General Oceanographic Research ship (AGOR 27) and is being built by the navy to help them with mapping even in the deepest parts of the ocean with the help of this acoustic equipment.

The work over the research vessel is still ongoing and it is being hoped to be completed somewhere around late 2014.

According to the statements of the navy officials, the first ship and its entire class of the vessel will be named as "Armstrong class" said Forbes. The ship will be 238 feet in length and would be able to move at more than 12 knots.

The first research ship is being constructed at Dakota Creek Industries Inc. in Anacortes, Wash. Officials said that the ship will be 238 feet in length and be able to move at more than 12 knots.