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The Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company (ADDSCO) located in Mobile, Alabama, was one of the largest marine production facilities in the United States during the 20th century. It began operation in 1917, and expanded dramatically during World War II ; with 30,000 workers, including numerous African Americans and women, it became the largest ...
Chickasaw Shipyard Village Historic District is a historic district comprising buildings and areas within Chickasaw, Alabama, which is a northern suburb of Mobile in Mobile County. The site is historically significant due to its role as a company town for the Gulf Shipbuilding Corporation shipyard during the first half of the twentieth century.
Austal USA is an American shipbuilder based on Blakeley Island in Mobile, Alabama.It is a subsidiary of the Australian shipbuilder Austal, operating under a Special Security Arrangement which allows it to work independently and separately on some of the most sensitive United States defense programs despite its foreign ownership.
The MV Barnstable, left, and MV Aquinnah, right, sit in a dry dock in an Alabama shipyard. The two vessels are set to be refloated March 29 and be ready for service in early summer.
Pinto Island is an island in the U.S. state of Alabama, within the city limits of Mobile. [1] Located on the northwestern coast of Mobile Bay , it is bounded on the west by the Mobile River , on the south by Mobile Bay, on the east by the Spanish River , and on the north by Pinto Pass (now partially infilled with dredged material to form a land ...
Gulf Shipbuilding Corporation is a former shipbuilding corporation in Chickasaw, Alabama a few miles upstream of the Port of Mobile. Following the company's closure, the land became a part of the Chickasaw Shipyard Village Historic District
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The schooner Alabama was one of the last vessels built from the design of one of the most notable designers of Gloucester fishing schooners, Thomas F. McManus. Commissioned by the Mobile Bar Pilot Association of Mobile, Alabama, the vessel was built in Pensacola, Florida, launched in 1926, and originally called Alabamian until her predecessor, the Bar Pilot Association's original Alabama, was ...