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Bollinger Shipyards is an American constructor of ships, workboats and patrol vessels. [2] Its thirteen shipyards and forty drydocks are located in Louisiana and Texas. Its drydocks range in capacity from vessels of 100 tons displacement to 22,000 tons displacement. The firm was founded in 1946.
She was commissioned on April 22, 1992, at Bollinger Shipyards in Lockport, Louisiana. Knight Island and the other 48 Island class cutters' construction were based on the internationally known Vosper-Thornycroft design. Her hull is a semi-displacement type monohull made of high strength steel, while the main deck and superstructure are aluminum.
The Island-class patrol boats were constructed in Bollinger Shipyards, Lockport, Louisiana. Washington has an overall length of 110 feet (33.5 m). she has a beam of 21 feet (6.4 m) and a draft of 7 feet (2.1 m) at the time of construction.
Lockport-based Bollinger Shipyards has won a contract that could lead to an estimated $123 million of work building Navy vessels.
Lockport-based Bollinger Shipyards is competing for a contract to build 11 Coast Guard cutters, which could bring new jobs to the Houma-Thibodaux area
The 87-foot-long (27 m) vessels are based on the Stan 2600 design by Damen Group and were built by Bollinger Shipyards of Lockport, Louisiana. Almost all of these boats have been delivered to the U.S. Coast Guard, which has named them after sea creatures that fly or swim. Four have been delivered to Malta and Yemen. [3]
Plans by the Port of South Louisiana to purchase what was once a major New Orleans area shipyard for construction of military vessels have been delayed. The port announced in January its intent to ...
In November 2022, Bollinger Shipyards announced that it would buy VT Halter Marine and oversee the construction of the Polar Security Cutters. [23] On November 22, 2022, Bollinger Shipyards announced it had completed the acquisition of VT Halter Marine and ST Engineer Halter Marine Offshore. Construction of the Polar Security Cutters will still ...