Ingalls shipbuilding

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Several destroyers and cruisers under construction at Ingalls

Ingalls Shipbuilding is a US shipyard based in Pascagoula , Mississippi .

The group was founded in 1938 at the mouth of the Pascagoula River in the Gulf of Mexico by Robert Ingalls and initially only built merchant ships , including freighters, tankers and cruise ships. In the early 1950s, Ingalls then applied for tenders from the United States Navy and won a contract for Sturgeon-class submarines in 1957 . A total of twelve nuclear-powered boats were built there and eleven more overhauled. In 1961 Litton Industries acquired the shipyard and incorporated it into the group.

Ingalls was involved in the construction of several other warship classes. These were the Tarawa class , the Kidd class , the Spruance class , the Ticonderoga class, and the Wasp class . The Arleigh Burke class is still under construction . The Zumwalt class was planned by Ingalls and Bath Iron Works , but only built by Bath Iron Works. Since 1975, the company has delivered more than 82 warships for the Navy and also builds and overhauls for foreign navies, including the Sa'ar-5 class for Israel.

Today, the company is the largest private employer in Mississippi with over 10,000 employees, with a maximum of 25,000 in 1977. Ingalls belonged to Northrop Grumman from 2001 and was part of the Ship Systems division. This was spun off in 2011 into a legally independent company, Huntington Ingalls Industries .

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Coordinates: 30 ° 21 ′ 2.7 ″  N , 88 ° 34 ′ 13.7 ″  W.