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As bottles of champagne were broken against her bow, the blast of her horns cut through the clear fall air and huge columns of water rose into the sky from a tugboat just offshore, the 265-foot-long ferry John W. Johnson was christened this morning to the cheers and applause of more than 300 guests at the headquarters of the Texas Department of Transportation's Galveston-Port Bolivar Ferry System.

The distinguished gentleman for whom the vessel is named was a member of the Texas Transportation Commission from 1999 until 2007, including four years as its chairman. Mr. Johnson, now chairman of the Houston-based Permian Mud Service Inc., is the latest in a series of TxDOT leaders whom the department has honored by commissioning a ferry bearing his name.