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Austal USA holds keel laying ceremony for LCS 32

Austal USA, Mobile, Ala., hosted future USS Santa Barbara ship sponsor and keel authenticator, Lolita Zinke, recently at a keel laying ceremony for the 16th Independence variant Littoral Combat Ship (LCS). Zinke welded her initials into the ship’s keel plate officially authenticating that the keel of the future USS Santa Barbara (LCS 32) “has been truly and fairly laid”.

The 421’6″x103.7′ Independence-variant LCS is the most recent step in the small surface combatant evolution. A high-speed,...

https://www.workboat.com/news/shipbuilding/austal-usa-holds-keel-laying-ceremony-for-lcs-32/

Eastern Shipbuilding lays keel for new trailing suction hopper dredge

Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Panama City, Fla., announced that on, Sept. 11, 2020, Eastern conducted the keel laying for 356’x79’6″x27’3″ R.B. Weeks, ESG hull 258, a new trailing suction hopper dredger for Weeks Marine Inc. (WMI), Covington, La., following the contract signing five months earlier.

Steel Cutting began on Aug. 19, 2020. The new U.S. flag dredge is be built at Eastern’s Allanton Shipyard. It will be the shipyard’s second trailing suction hopper dredge project for Weeks Marine. The Ma...

https://www.workboat.com/news/shipbuilding/eastern-shipbuilding-lays-keel-for-new-trailing-suction-hopper-dredge/

Keel Laid for World’s Largest LNG Bunkering Vessel

  • Keel-laying ceremony for the second LNG bunkering vessel has been initiated.
  • The second LNG bunkering vessel is owned by MOL and chartered by Total.
  • The first ship in this batch is chartered by Total and named Gas Agilty.
  • MOL and Total claim these are the world’s largest LNG bunkering vessels.
  • They feature GTT’s Mark III Flex membrane containment system and Wartsila’s dual-fuel engine.
  • They possess a 25% higher loading and unloading rate for improved operations.

According to an article...

https://mfame.guru/keel-laid-for-worlds-largest-lng-bunkering-vessel/

Bay Shipbuilding lays keel for new LNG bunker barge

Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding and Polaris New Energy hosted a private ceremonial keel laying in late June, celebrating the start of construction of an LNG (liquefied natural gas) bunker barge. The 340’x66’x32’10” barge will be named the Clean Canaveral and will operate as an articulated tug and barge unit that initially runs along the U.S. East Coast, providing LNG bunkering solutions to NorthStar Midstream’s customers.

Modern ships are now largely built in a series of prefabricated, complete...

https://www.workboat.com/news/shipbuilding/bay-shipbuilding-lays-keel-for-new-lng-bunker-barge/

Eastern Shipbuilding lays keel for first offshore patrol cutter

Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Panama City, Fla., reports that the keel laying ceremony for the U.S. Coast Guard’s, first of class, 360’x54′ offshore patrol cutter (OPC) Argus (WMSM-915), was held on April 28, 2020 at Eastern’s Nelson Street facility. The ceremony was performed and recorded without audience to comply with CDC guidelines to combat the spread of COVID-19.

The OPC is designed to conduct multiple missions in support of the nation’s maritime security and border protection. It will...

https://www.workboat.com/news/shipbuilding/eastern-shipbuilding-lays-keel-for-first-offshore-patrol-cutter/

VT Halter begins construction on Navy berthing vessels

VT Halter Marine Inc., Pascagoula, Miss., laid the keel to signify the beginning of construction for the first of two 269’x75.28′ auxiliary personnel lighter — small (APL(S)) berthing barges for the U.S. Navy.

Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) awarded VT Halter a $77.9 million contract to design and build two firm units of the new class of berthing barges in September 2018, with options for another four. The first of these four options was exercised in February 2019, bringing the total value of...

https://www.workboat.com/news/shipbuilding/vt-halter-begins-construction-navy-berthing-vessels/

Gulf Island Shipyards begins building Rhode Island research vessel

Taani Class research vessel. Glosten Associates photo

Construction officially began yesterday in Houma, La., on the 199′ research vessel Resolution, a new research ship being built at Gulf Island Shipyards and bound for the University of Rhode Island. The Regional Class Research Vessel (RCRV) will support such scientific studies as the tracking of ocean currents, ocean-atmosphere interactions, climate-induced changes in the oceans, fish migration, seafloor surveys, conservation of marine mammals and the food-web dynamics in the deep ocean.

RCRVs...

https://www.workboat.com/news/shipbuilding/gulf-island-shipyards-begins-building-rhode-island-research-vessel/