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Originally Posted by Panther Al
One thing that I noticed was missed in every discussion of what was hit and not hit regarding US shipbuilding (And refurbishment for that matter) capability is Bath Iron Works. Just about every Destroyer in US Navy Service, from the Spruance, the Tico's, and the Burke's was all built in this one shipyard tucked away on the Maine Coast. They have dry building slips for three 800' vessels (one of which is much longer than the others), and three more older fashioned wet slipways about the right size for Figs and possibly three more Burke's. If you go to Googlemaps, and look it up, you'll see one on a slip, one had just left the floating dry dock to be fitted out, and they are laying out plates for three more on the old fashioned slipways.
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Nitpick.
The entire
Spruance and
Kidd class were built at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, MS.
Bath Iron Works and Ingalls Shipbuilding split the
Ticonderoga and
Arleigh Burke class.
The
Oliver Hazard Perry class frigates were split between Bath Iron Works, Todd Pacific - San Pedro, and Todd Pacific - Seattle.