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Irving Shipbuilding Inc. is a Canadian shipbuilder and in-service support provider. The company operates as a subsidiary of J.D. Irving Limited. As of 2024, Irving Shipbuilding employs over 2100 shipbuilders. [1] [2] Irving Shipbuilding owns two shipyards in Nova Scotia: Halifax Shipyard and Woodside Industries, both located along the Halifax ...
On June 27, 2003 Irving Shipbuilding announced it had an agreement with the federal government to permanently close the country's largest shipyard, Saint John Shipbuilding in Saint John. The competing Davie Yards Incorporated in Lauzon, Quebec experienced similar financial difficulty and spent much of the decade in mothball status. This left ...
River-class destroyer (2030s) The River-class destroyer, formerly the Canadian Surface Combatant (CSC), and Single Class Surface Combatant Project is the procurement project that will replace the Iroquois and Halifax -class warships with up to 15 new ships beginning in the early 2030s as part of the National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy ...
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Irving Shipbuilding announced that construction would be halted for at least three weeks beginning in March 2020. [62] Harry DeWolf was delivered to the Navy in July 2020, and commissioned on 26 June 2021. Margaret Brooke was delivered on 15 July 2021 and commissioned on 28 October 2022.
The shipyard was sold in the 1950s to the industrialist K.C. Irving. The ensuing corporate restructuring saw the company renamed Saint John Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Ltd.. By the 1980s, it came to be known simply as Saint John Shipbuilding and was the flagship of a collection of eastern Canadian shipyards operated by Irving Shipbuilding.
On 19 October 2011 the Government of Canada selected Irving Shipbuilding Inc. for the $25 billion combat work package and Seaspan Marine Corp. for the $8 billion non-combat work package. [28] [29] In 2012, the two companies negotiated the contracts for the first projects of each package. [29]
Dartmouth Marine Slips. Coordinates: 44.662958°N 63.563367°W. The Dartmouth Marine Slips was an historic shipyard and marine railway which operated in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia between 1859 and 2003. It was noted for important wartime work during the American Civil War as well as during the Battle of the Atlantic in World War II.
Kevin M. McCoy. Vice Admiral Kevin Michael McCoy (born 1956) [1] is a native of Long Island, New York and joined the United States Navy in 1977. [2] McCoy's last naval posting was as the 42nd commander of Naval Sea Systems Command. [3] Since 2013 he is a President of Irving Shipbuilding Inc. [4]