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Logo unveiled for new submarine named for Minnesota

ROSEVILLE, Minn. - Seventeen-year-old Jakob Bartels was already feeling good about his drawing hobby. After all, earlier this year he won first place in a logo contest sponsored by a local restaurant.

Getting his design on a beer stein was one thing. But a nuclear powered submarine is something else altogether.

On Friday, another of Bartels’ designs was unveiled as the crest for the USS Minnesota, a Navy submarine now being built at a shipyard in Virginia and scheduled for commissioning in late 2013.

Bartel’s design incorporates a seafaring Viking, the North Star, a blue background to represent Minnesota’s lakes, a band of maroon to represent the University of Minnesota and a Latin inscription that translates to “From the North, Power.”

Also featured on the crest is a walleye mean enough to scare a Mille Lacs fisherman right out of his boat.

For his efforts Bartels was awarded a $1,500 scholarship and a free trip to the Minnesota’s commissioning.

The USS Minnesota will be the third navy vessel named for the state, and the first since 1907.