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It closed in October 2014. The yard was located on the west bank of the Mississippi River in an area called Bridge City, about 20 miles (32 km) upriver from New Orleans near Westwego, Louisiana. It was the site of the modernization of the battleship USS Iowa in the early 1980s and also constructed some of the lighter aboard ships (LASH). At one ...
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Pendleton Shipyard Company was a shipyard in New Orleans, Louisiana started by Pendleton E. Leyde in 1941. Pendleton Shipyard Company built ships for World War II under the Emergency Shipbuilding Program. The shipyard was at the Florida Avenue Wharf at .
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 ...
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.
A Higgins Industries torpedo boat plant in New Orleans, 1942. Higgins Industries was the company owned by Andrew Higgins based in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.. Higgins Industries is most famous for the design and production of the Higgins boat, an amphibious landing craft referred to as LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel), which was used extensively in the Allied forces' D-Day ...
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