Marinette Marine

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The Marinette Marine Corporation is an American shipyard who since January 1, 2009 Fincantieri belongs.

history

Marinette Marine was founded in 1942 when World War II demand for shipbuilding was at its peak. The shipyard is located on the Menominee River near Marinette , Wisconsin . According to its own statement, the shipyard has already built 1,300 ships.

The shipyard's main customers are private companies, so Marinette Marine has built several of the Staten Island Ferries and icebreakers for use on the Great Lakes . But the shipyard also worked for the government. So they built for the US Navy tug of Powhatan - and (partly) the Natick-class and minesweepers of the Avenger-class . From 2005, Marinette Marine built for Lockheed Martin the first Littoral Combat Ship of the Freedom class , the USS Freedom (LCS-1) . Also for themUnited States Coast Guard were boats built.

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Coordinates: 45 ° 6 ′ 0.5 ″  N , 87 ° 37 ′ 13.1 ″  W.