In 1938, Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation was founded by Robert Ingersoll Ingalls, Sr. of Birmingham, Alabama, on the East Bank of the Pascagoula River in Mississippi. Ingalls was located where the Pascagoula River runs into the Gulf of Mexico. It started out building commercial ships including, which took part in Liberty Fleet Day on 27 September 1941. In the 1950s Ingalls started bidding on Navy work, winning a contract in 1957 to build 12 nuclear-powered attack submarines. Litton Industries acquired Ingalls in 1961, and in 1968 expanded its facilities to the other side of the river. Ingalls reached a high point of employment in 1977, with 27,280 workers. In April 2001, Litton was acquired by the Northrop Grumman Corporation. On 29 August 2005, Ingalls facilities were damaged by Hurricane Katrina; most of the ships in dock and construction escaped serious harm. While shipbuilding was halted for a while due to the destruction of many buildings, most vehicles and the large overhead cranes are the same that the facility continues to operate today. On 31 March 2011, Northrop Grummanspun off its shipbuilding sector into a new corporation, Huntington Ingalls Industries. In 2015, Ingalls Shipbuilding Company signed a contract with US Navy for new destroyers, littoral combat ships, and new landing craft. was one of the first new destroyers and was launched on March 28. The company is also building the, and. On 21 March 2015, the new ship was ceremonially christened. The vessel had been launched on October 30 and was commissioned in 2017. On 27 March 2015, the shipyard received construction contracts for their next destroyers. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company was awarded a $604.3 million contract modification to build. On 31 March 2015, the shipyard also received another contract with a $500 million fixed price to build the eighth National Security Cutter for the US Coast Guard. Most of them will be under construction until 2019. The cutters are the most advanced ships ever built for the Coast Guard. On 30 June 2016, Ingalls Shipbuilding signed a contract with US Navy to build the U.S. Navy's next large-deck amphibious assault warship. The contract included planning, advanced engineering, and procurement of long-lead material, is just over $272 million. If options are exercised, the cumulative value of the contract would be $3.1 billion
Products
Ingalls' primary product has been naval ships, and naval projects for Egypt, Israel, and Venezuela. In the 1950s, Ingalls attempted to enter the diesel locomotive market. They cataloged an extensive product line, but only one example, known as the model 4-S, was produced. It was sold to the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad. Ingalls also manufactured covered hopper railroad cars in the early 1980s, producing around 4,000 units, primarily for the lease market via North American Car.
Ships built
Ships built by Ingalls include:
Submarines
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Destroyers
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Kidd class:
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Cruisers
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Cutters
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Amphibious transport dock
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Amphibious assault ship
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Tarawa class:
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Wasp class:
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America class:
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Attack transport
Corvette
Sa'ar 5-class:
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Tankers
T5 Tanker prototype, 615-foot vessel intended for possible conversion to atomic power, 1958
Cruise ships and ocean liners
, a luxury liner launched in 1957.
, the last luxury ocean liner to be completed in the United States as of 2015.
