Bath Iron Works

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Bath Iron Works from NAS Brunswick photo gallery

Bath Iron Works (BIW) is a major United States shipyard located on the Kennebec River in Bath, Maine, founded in 1884 as Bath Iron Works, Limited. Since 1995, Bath Iron Works has been a subsidiary of General Dynamics, one of the world's largest defense companies. BIW has built private, commercial, and military vessels, most of which have been ordered by the United States Navy.

History

Bath Iron Works was incorporated in 1884 on the Kennebec River by General Thomas W. Hyde, a native of Bath who served in the American Civil War. After the war, he bought a shop that made windlasses and other iron hardware for the wooden ships built in Bath's many shipyards. He expanded the business by improving its practices, entering new markets, and acquiring other local businesses. By 1882, Hyde Windlass was eyeing the new and growing business of iron shipbuilding, and it incorporated as Bath Iron Works in 1884.

On February 28, 1890, BIW won its first contract for complete vessels: two iron gunboats for the Navy. One of these Template:Convert ships was the Template:USS, the first ship launched by the company. In 1892, the yard won its first commercial contract for the 2,500-ton steel passenger steamer Template:Ship. In the 1890s, the company built several yachts for wealthy sailors.

In 1899, Hyde was suffering from Bright's Disease and resigned from management of the shipyard, leaving his sons Edward and John in charge. The shipyard began construction of Template:USS that same year, the only battleship ever built in Bath. It dominated the yard for five years until its launching in 1904, and was at times the only ship under construction. The yard faced numerous challenges because of the weight of armor and weapons. In sea trials, Georgia averaged Template:Convert for four hours, making her the fastest ship in her class and the fastest battleship in the United States Navy at the time.<ref name="End Games – PORTLAND MAGAZINE">Template:Cite web</ref>

The company continued to rely on Navy contracts, which provided 86% of the value of new contracts between 1905 and 1917. By then, a different company named Bath Ironworks (BIW) ran it. The yard also produced fishing trawlers, freighters, and yachts throughout the first half of the century. It went into receivership in 1925 and 6 before being bought by a conglomerate in 1926 and returning to naval ship building . The ships built before its return to naval ship building were mostly yachts such as, Hi-Esmaro, Aras I and Aras II, Caroline, and Corsair IV, which later served as a cruise ship before sinking off Acapulco, Mexico in 1949.<ref name="End Games – PORTLAND MAGAZINE"/>

The shipyard was at peak production during World War II (1943–1944), launching a destroyer every 17 days. Bath Iron Works ranked 50th among United States corporations in the value of World War II military production contracts.<ref>Template:Citation</ref> In 1981, Falcon Transport ordered two tankers, the last commercial vessels built by BIW.

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Mine-damaged Template:USS in May 1988

Template:USS was commissioned at Bath in 1986. It survived a mine explosion which tore a hole in its engine room and flooded two compartments. Over the next two years, BIW repaired the ship in unique fashion. The guided missile frigate was towed to the company's dry dock in Portland, Maine, and put up on blocks, where the damaged engine room was cut out of the ship. Meanwhile, workers in Bath built a 315-ton replacement, and the module was floated south to Portland, placed on the dry dock, slid into place under the frigate, jacked up, and welded into place.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

In 1995, Bath Iron Works was bought by General Dynamics. In 2001, the company wrapped up a four-year effort to build the Land Level Transfer Facility, an enormous concrete platform for final assembly of its ships, instead of building them on a sloping way so that they could slide into the Kennebec at launch. Hulls are now moved by rail from the platform horizontally onto a moveable dry dock, which greatly reduced the work involved in building and launching the ships.<ref>GDBIW.com Template:Webarchive</ref>

In 2015, Bath Iron Works signed contracts with US Navy to build new Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, as well as to conduct maintenance sustainment support of Independence-class littoral combat ships built by competitor Austal USA.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The shipyard delivered Template:USS and Template:USS and is working on Template:USS and Template:USS. The DDG block buy for Bath also includes Template:USS, Template:USS, and Template:USS. On March 27, Bath received a $610.4 million contract modification to build John Basilone. This ship was funded in the 2015 defense appropriations act.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

In 2016, Dirk Lesko became president of Bath Iron Works.<ref name=":0" />

In 2020, 4,300 workers, all members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, voted to go on strike after the company and the union failed to agree to new labor contracts. The shipbuilders agreed to a 3-year pact and returned to work after 63 days of strike.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Lesko resigned unexpectedly on April 7, 2022, the same day the union local announced that it had come to an agreement with the shipyard.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite web</ref> On May 5, 2022, Charles F. Krugh was appointed president.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Offsite facilities

Bath Iron Works operates several offsite facilities in the surrounding mid-coast Maine region, their purposes range from administration to structural fabrication.

West Bath

• West Bath Warehouse • The facility closest to the main yard, located on 76 New Meadows Road, West Bath. Its primary responsibilities are storage and distribution of materials to other BIW facilities, primarily the main yard.

Brunswick

The neighboring city of Brunswick, Maine, Contains the most Bath Iron Works offsite facilities of any single municipality.

• Structural Fabrication • Built in 1940 under the name "Harding's Plant", the Structural Fabrication facility is among the largest outside of the main yard.

• Outfit Fabrication • Previously known as "East Brunswick Manufacturing Facility (EBMF)", the Outfit Fabrication facility is responsible for the production of non-structural parts and assemblies more efficient to build on the shop floor, and later ship into the main yard.

• Tech Center • The Tech Center is where many Planners, Designers, and Engineers work.

Notable ships built

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Aphrodite in 1899

• Yachts
  • SY Eleanor (1894) 803 ton steam yacht for W. A. Slater<ref>The Steam Yachts by Erik Hofman ISBN 0-8286-0040-6</ref>
  • Aphrodite completed for Oliver Hazard Payne 1899, the largest American built steam yacht at the time
  • Ranger, successful America's Cup defender
  • Aras II, Presidential Yacht known as USS Williamsburg
  • Corsair IV, large yacht built for J. P. Morgan Jr.
• Lightvessels
  • Diamond Shoal Lightship No. 71 (LV-71)
  • Nantucket Lightship 66
  • Nantucket Lightship 106
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  • USS Machias, Spanish–American War and World War I
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Template:USS was the first United States cruiser of the numbering series used through the first half of the 20th century.

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Two of the seven Bath Iron Works destroyers transferred to the Royal Navy in the Destroyers for Bases Agreement. The outboard ship made the St. Nazaire Raid.

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The last of the "four-stack" destroyers, Template:USS being launched from Bath Iron Works in 1920.

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Template:USCGC delivers prisoners from U-352 to Charleston Navy Yard on 10 May 1942.

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Nicholas holds the United States Navy record for battle stars with 16 from World War II, 5 from the Korean War and 9 from the Vietnam War

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Agerholm launched an ASROC anti-submarine rocket armed with a nuclear depth bomb during the Dominic Swordfish (1962)

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The second Cold War destroyer built by Bath Iron Works was named for the grandfather of Republican senator and 2008 presidential candidate John S. McCain III.

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  • USS Daniel Inouye (DDG-118)
  • USS Carl M. Levin (DDG-120)
  • USS John Basilone (DDG-122)
  • USS Harvey C. Barnum Jr. (DDG-124)
  • USS Louis H. Wilson Jr. (DDG-126)
  • USS Patrick Gallagher (DDG-127)
  • USS William Charette (DDG-130)
  • USS Quentin Walsh (DDG 132)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • USS John E. Kilmer (DDG 134)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • USS Richard G. Lugar (DDG 136)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • USS J. William Middendorf (DDG 138)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • USS Thomas G. Kelley (DDG 140)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • USS Michael G. Mullen (DDG 144)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • USS Kyle Carpenter
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Further reading

• Template:Cite book (First general history of BIW.)
• Template:Cite book (Describes the construction of a Perry-class guided missile frigate, the training of its precommissioning crew at BIW, and the complex repair job that returned it to duty.)
• Template:Cite book (Describes the construction of Template:USS at BIW.)
• Template:Cite book (The definitive work on BIW from 1884 to 1987.)
• Template:Cite book (Historic and contemporary photos of BIW.)

External links

• Bath Iron Works website Template:Webarchive
• USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG-58) under repair at BIW's Portland dry dock