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Should we be awarded the contract for the heavies and the anticipated mediums constructed in Tampa, we could be busy here through 2035. Along with the supporting infrastructure of vendors, subcontractors and suppliers, we would expect that locating this program in Tampa will have the benefit of well
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fast-response cutters. In 2008, Bollinger secured a contract to build the first group of 24 to 34 cutters. In May 2016 the U.S. Coast Guard signed a new contract with
Bollinger to build 26 additional vessels, bringing the total on order to 58, at a cost of almost $ 3.8 billion. A news release said
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The little PCs were at first scorned when they entered service in the mid-1990s, rejected by the special operations warfare community they were built for as too big. A new lease on life was found after 9/11, when the Navy needed craft to patrol the U.S. coasts, but even that need mostly fell off.
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when driven at high speed in a heavy seas, and proved to be so unseaworthy that they were all withdrawn from service, forcing the scrapping of the conversion program. As a result, in August 2011, the US government sued
Bollinger over the failed modifications, alleging that the company made false
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Some were sent to the Gulf in 2003 and 2004 to support
Operation Iraqi Freedom – a mission that kept the craft steadily employed – but some of those that remained in the U.S. fell by the wayside, becoming little more than spare parts sources for the vessels that remained running.
293:. These vessels can stern launch and retrieve a high speed pursuit boat, without coming to a stop. They were designed for missions of five days. The first three vessels were launched in 2011. As of mid-2017, 23 had entered service, with deliveries occurring every 73 days.
217:. These 87-foot (27 m) vessels were staffed by a crew of 10. Uniquely for Coast Guard vessels of this size they were designed to be capable of being crewed by crews of mixed sex. These high-speed vessels were lightly armed, mounting two
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The Coast Guard chose to name its latest fast-response cutter after Flores. The ship is being launched from the
Bollinger Shipyards in southern Louisiana and will undergo several months of testing before it is commissioned and joins the
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between 1993 and 2000. The ships are 179 ft (55 m) long and carry a crew of 28 (4 officers, 24 enlisted). Their mission is coastal patrol and interdiction surveillance. These ships can provide full mission support for Navy
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for the United States Coast Guard. The five bidders were each awarded a $ 20 million contract for development work. Bollinger announced that, if it were the winning bidder, it would have built the icebreakers in its
181:. 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.
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MarineLink provides what is almost certainly a quote of press release from
Bollinger stating they hope to build the three heavy and three medium icebreakers the Coast Guard has been saying it needs in Tampa.
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Those companies included
Bollinger Shipyards, Fincantieri Marine Group, General Dynamics and National Steel and Shipbuilding Company, Huntington Ingalls and VT Halter Marine, a Coast Guard statement noted.
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Bollinger says it has selected Tampa
Shipyard for the design and construction of up to three heavy polar icebreakers, and three additional medium-sized icebreakers under consideration by the U.S. Coast
225:, capable of launching and retrieving a high-speed pursuit boat while the cutter was still in motion. The launch and retrieval of the pursuit boat required just one sailor to remain on deck.
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Bollinger is one of five companies awarded contracts last year for heavy polar icebreaker design studies and analysis. The total amount of the contracts was about $ 20 million for that work.
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249:Island-class cutters' hulls would crack
983:"PCs on the move – to Central Command"
447:"Executive Team - Bollinger Shipyards"
219:Browning M2 fifty caliber machine guns
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475:. Bollinger Shipyards. Archived from
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