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BIW replaces 15-ton turbine on Zumwalt destroyer

BATH (AP) — Shipbuilder Bath Iron Works has replaced one of the massive turbines on the future USS Michael Monsoor, and the stealthy destroyer is scheduled to depart for San Diego in November. The delicate operation involved lifting and maneuvering the 15-ton Rolls Royce marine turbine out of the ship, and workers had to build […]

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Navy requests more destroyers, to be built by BIW or Ingalls

BATH (AP) — The Navy has submitted a request for proposals for more destroyers to be built by either Maine’s Bath Iron Works or Mississippi’s Ingalls shipyard, or both. The Naval Sea Systems Command issued its final request on Thursday for Arleigh Burke-class destroyers built with ballistic missile defense capability. The contract covers the fiscal […]

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Bath Iron Works hoists 900-ton deckhouse onto second stealth destroyer

BATH — Overnight Thursday into Friday morning, cranes at Bath Iron Works lifted the 900-ton deckhouse of the future USS Michael Monsoor and lowered it carefully onto the hull of the second Zumwalt-class “stealth” guided-missile destroyer built by BIW for the U.S. Navy. The 155-foot-long, 60-foot-high composite deckhouse, built by Huntington Ingalls Industries in Gulfport, […]