National Steel and Shipbuilding Company
National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO) is an American shipbuilding company.
history
In 1905 the company began as a small California Iron Works with machine workshop and foundry . In 1922, California Iron Works was taken over by the US National Bank and renamed National Iron Works. In 1944, National Iron Works moved to its current location in San Diego Bay and was renamed National Steel and Shipbuilding Co. (NASSCO) in 1949. In 1959, the company was taken over by four owners, including the Henry J. Kaiser Company and Morrison-Knudsen . In 1979, Morrison-Knudsen bought Kaiser and in 1989 management acquired the company. In 1998 General Dynamics acquired NASSCO for $ 415 million and invested $ 135 million. In 2011, General Dynamics-NASSCO took over Metro Machine Corp., a repair yard in Norfolk , Virginia and renamed it NASSCO-Norfolk.
description
Today, as a division of General Dynamics, NASSCO consists of three shipyards in San Diego, Norfolk and Mayport. The San Diego shipyard specializes in the construction of commercial cargo ships and support vessels for the US Navy and the Military Sealift Command . It is the only shipbuilding yard on the west coast of the United States. The Virginia shipyard mainly carries out ship repairs and conversions for the US Navy .
Construction work program of the shipyards
NASSCO began building cargo ships in 1959. The best-known merchant ship was the tanker Exxon Valdez , which delivered in 1986 and returned to NASSCO for repairs in 1989 after an accident and an oil spill in Alaska. From the 1990s the shipyard built ships for the Navy (AOE-10 auxiliary ships, strategic sealift ships and two ships of the TOTE Orca class). In the 2000s, service work was carried out on the US warships Ticonderoga and USS Spruance (DD-963) in San Diego. In 2001, NASSCO won a major contract to build 14 Lewis and Clark class dry freighters (T-AKE) valued at $ 3.7 billion.
Three ships of a new class for the US Navy, the so-called Mobile Landing Platform, were delivered from 2012. In December 2012 the shipyard signed a contract for the construction of two 233 m long container ships that will run on liquefied natural gas (LNG). The first, the Isla Bella , was delivered in 2015 and is the largest LNG-powered container ship.
In 2016, Matson ordered two new roll-on / roll-off (ConRo) ships for their Hawaii fleet at a contract price of $ 511 million for both ships.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.ship-technology.com/projects/totes-orca-class-vessels-conversion/ Accessed October 27, 2018
- ↑ http://trends.nauticexpo.de/project-320673.html , accessed on October 27, 2018