Vigor held a keel laying ceremony yesterday marking the first milestone in the construction of the Army’s next generation landing craft, the maneuver support vessel (light) or MSV-L.
The prototype is named in honor of SSG Elroy F. Wells, an Army watercraft operator killed in action in 1970 in Vietnam.
The nearly billion dollar contract to build MSV-Ls was awarded to Vigor in October 2017. The new design, developed in partnership with BMT, will dramatically improve the capabilities of the current...