Last week, Bollinger Shipyards delivered the first Bollinger-built Auxiliary Personnel Lighter–Small (APL(S)) Class berthing and messing barge (APL 71) to the U.S. Navy. APL 71 is the fifth vessel of ...
U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command has exercised an option with Conrad Shipyard to build another Yard, Repair, Berthing, and Messing (YRBM) barge. The award is a $18,484,619 firm-fixed-price modification ...
Even in the best of times, utilitarian U.S. Navy tugs, patrol vessels and miscellaneous small service craft get little respect. Today, with funds short and America’s Navy now run and ruled by a pair ...
USS Texas (BB-35), a New York-class battleship that served in both WWI and WWII, undergoes repairs at Gulf Copper Dry Dock & Rig Repair in Galveston, Texas, Sept. 18, 2023. US Coast Guard Photo The ...