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U.S. Yards (continued from page 23) keels for the first two ships, and 2nd Lt. John P. Bobo and the Pfc.

Dewayne T. Williams. All of the

MPS vessels will be named for ser- vicemen who earned the Medal of

Honor.

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INGALLS SHIPBUILDING

On July 4 this year the U.S.

Navy placed in commission a sec- ond Aegis guided-missile cruiser, the USS Yorktown (CG-48). The new ship is one of 11 contracted by the Navy to Ingalls Shipbuilding division of Litton in Pascagoula,

Miss. Ingalls delivered the lead ship, USS Ticonderoga (CG-47) ahead of schedule in 1982, and that ship has now completed a highly successful first deployment to the eastern Mediterranean.

Yorktown was also delivered ahead of schedule, and has reported for duty with the Atlantic Fleet.

Nine additional Aegis cruisers are under construction or in plan- ning at Ingalls including the Vin- cennes (CG-49), which will be commissioned in July 1985, and

Valley Forge (CG-50), which will be christened September 29 this year. These ships will bring to the

Navy the same high quality work- manship as exemplified by the outstanding performance of the first two Aegis cruisers to join the

Fleet.

Ingalls is also building the lead ship in a new class of multi-pur- pose amphibious assault ships, the

Wasp (LHD-1). Similar in many respects to five Tarawa (LHA-1)

Class assault ships built by Ingalls in the 1970s, this new class will significantly improve and revital- ize the Navy/Marine Corps team's sealift capability. Designed to ac- commodate the Navy's new LCAC air cushion landing craft and Har- rier jet aircraft, LHD-1 will have as a primary mission the embar- kation, deployment, landing, and support of a Marine landing force.

At 844 feet long with a beam of 106 feet, the 40,500-ton Wasp will be the third largest ship type in the U.S. Fleet. The lead ship of the new class is scheduled for delivery in early 1989.

In April this year Ingalls com- pleted a complex modernization and reactivation work package aboard the battleship Iowa (BB- 61), and redelivered the ship ahead of a schedule that was twice accel- erated by the Navy. Ingalls' job was to bring this great ship into the missile era with modern weap- ons and electronics, including To- mahawk and Harpoon cruise mis- siles and Phalanx rapid-fire guns.

Living quarters for her 1,500 of- ficers and crewmen were updated, and her engines and boilers were overhauled and modernized to burn the Navy's standard distillate fuel.

Her nine 16-inch guns were refur- bished, as were 12 five-inch guns.

Modern communications, air and surface search radar, and elec- tronic countermeasures systems were installed as well. USS Iowa was recommissioned on April 28 this year and has reported for duty with the Atlantic Fleet.

Ingalls is also continuing to build on a well-deserved reputation in the overhaul of surface ships. The yard has completed overhauls of six Spruance (DD-963) Class de- stroyers an average of four weeks ahead of schedule, and all within budget. Two additional overhauls are under way, the Spruance ships

USS John Rodgers (DD-983) and

USS Moosbrugger (DD-980). These ships will rejoin the Fleet in May and August 1985, respectively.

Leading the industry in the de- velopment and application of com- puter technology for ship design and construction, Ingalls main- tains a 1,500-member engineering and design staff, which includes an ongoing independent R&D pro- gram. This engineering staff has assisted the Navy in the design of its next destroyer class, the Ar- leigh Burke (DDG-51) Class of Ae- gis destroyers. This new ship rep- resents an important aspect of

Ingalls' future shipbuilding activity.

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LOCKHEED SHIPBUILDING

Lockheed Shipbuilding Com- pany (LSC) of Seattle (formerly

Lockheed Shipbuilding & Con- struction), a wholly owned subsid- iary of Lockheed Corporation of

Burbank, Calif., presently has $1 billion of new shipbuilding con- struction work under way for the

U.S. Navy. The yard is building three dock landing ships (LSD) that were designed by Lockheed.

These ships are 609 feet long over- all, with an 84-foot beam and 20- foot fully loaded draft.

The LSDs are amphibious as- sault ships designed to carry U.S.

Marine Corps troops, their equip- ment, and their supplies to points around the world. The assault ships will lay to "over the horizon" and will carry four 87-foot by 50-foot air cushion landing craft (LCAC) in their floodable wet wells. (Note: the LCACs currently under con- struction for the Navy are being built by Bell Aerospace-Textron in

New Orleans).

The three LSDs under construc- tion at LSC are: the Whidbey Is- land (LSD-41), approximately 95 percent complete and scheduled for delivery in November this year, built at a contract cost of $338.6 million; the Germ an town (LSD-42), approximately 80 percent com- plete, with a delivery date of Oc- tober 1985 and contract cost of $304 million; and the yet un- named LSD-43, approximately 22 percent complete and scheduled for delivery in June of 1987, con- tract cost $271.

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