Irving Shipbuilding has cut steel for the seventh Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ship (AOPS), the first of two for the Canadian Coast Guard’s fleet.
The keel for the future USNS Lucy Stone (T-AO 209), the Navy’s 5th John Lewis-class fleet replenishment oiler, was laid at General Dynamics National Steel and Shipbuilding Company’s (GD NASSCO) shipyard in San Diego, on 8 August. A keel laying is the recognition of the start of a ship’s construction
US Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) Carlos Del Toro announced today that a future Navajo-class towing, salvage, and rescue (T-ATS) ship will be named in honor of Solomon Atkinson, a pioneering Navy SEAL.
HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division has laid the keel for Virginia-class attack submarine Oklahoma (SSN 802) being built for the US Navy.
American shipbuilders Huntington Ingalls Industries, Ingalls Shipbuilding Division (HII Ingalls) and General Dynamics Bath Iron Works (GD BIW) have been awarded contracts to build a total of nine Arleigh Burke-class destroyers.
HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Navy to support maintenance of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers in San Diego.
Bollinger Shipyards has delivered the USCGC William Sparling to the U.S. Coast Guard in Key West, Florida.
The US Navy accepted delivery of fleet replenishment oiler, USNS Harvey Milk (T-AO 206), from shipbuilder General Dynamics National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO) on 11 July.
HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division has delivered the first Flight III Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer Jack H. Lucas (DDG 125) to the U.S. Navy.
The U.S. Navy commissioned its newest Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Carl M. Levin (DDG 120), on 24 June in Baltimore.
The US Navy christened its newest Virginia-class fast-attack submarine, the future USS Iowa (SSN 797), during a ceremony held at General Dynamics Electric Boat in Groton on 17 June.
Austal USA has been awarded a contract option from the US Navy for the construction of an additional Navajo-class towing, salvage and rescue ship (T-ATS 15).
Austal USA has started construction of the US Navy’s Auxiliary Floating Dry Dock Medium (AFDM) at the company’s Gulf Coast ship manufacturing facility.
The keel for the future USS Pittsburgh (LPD 31), a San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock, was ceremonially laid at Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Ingalls Shipbuilding division, on 2 June.
