The first group of Navy reservists assigned to Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility as part of the Navy’s Surge Maintenance program (see earlier story) have arrived to begin their
Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding and Polaris New Energy hosted a private ceremonial keel laying last month celebrating the start of construction of an LNG (liquefied natural gas) ATB bunkering barge. The barge will
Detyens Shipyards Inc., Charleston, S.C., has won a Military Sealift Command contract for the drydocking of the dry cargo/ammunition ship USNS William McLean (T-AKE-12), beating out two competitors. The contract has a
All American Marine Inc. (AAM), Bellingham, Wash., has launched Orca II, the second of the two 78-foot by 27-foot aluminum catamarans it is building for Great Western Attractions (GWA) for operation as
General Dynamics Bath Iron Works (BIW) says that it today filed a charge with the National Labor Relations Board against the IAM Local S6 union for violating the National Labor Relations Act
Two elderly Los Angeles-class submarines headed for decommissioning — USS Olympia (SSN 717), commissioned in 1984, and USS Louisville (SSN 724), commissioned in 1986, – both entered Dry Dock 5 at Puget
Halter Marine Inc., Pascagoula, Miss., has launched the first two in the series of Auxiliary Personnel Lighter–Small (APL(S)) berthing barges it is building for the U.S. Navy. In other milestones in the
USS McCampbell (DDG 85) departed Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Japan, July 2, following 13 years of service forward-deployed to U.S. Seventh Fleet. The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer is en route to Portland, Oregon,
Detyens Shipyards Inc. Chairman of the Board David Loy Stewart Sr., 72, of Mt. Pleasant, S.C., husband of the late Judy Ann Detyens Stewart, passed away June 30, 2020. Born September 15,
The Navy has exercised an FY2020 $936 million option under a contract with Huntington Ingalls Industries that will see the company’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division build DDG 135, the future USS Thad Cochran.