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Major Shipbuilders


These companies operate (or used to operate) fully developed, large shipyards building large naval combatants and/or deep-draft, oceangoing merchant ships.  They all have (or had) a significant and impressive record of performance, through the good times and the bad.

Shipbuilder

Location

State Most Recent Update

ACTIVE MAJOR SHIPBUILDERS (6)

General Dynamics - Bath Iron Works Corporation

Bath ME Sep-11

General Dynamics - Electric Boat Company

Groton CT Jan-12

General Dynamics - NASSCO

San Diego CA Sep-11

Huntington Ingalls - Newport News Shipbuilding

Newport News VA Jan-12

Huntington Ingalls - Ingalls Shipbuilding

Pascagoula MS Dec-11

Huntington Ingalls - Avondale Shipyards

New Orleans LA Oct-11

INACTIVE MAJOR SHIPBUILDERS (6)

Bethlehem Quincy (formerly Fore River SB, later GD Quincy)

Quincy and Squantum MA Jul-11

Bethlehem San Francisco (formerly Union Iron Works)

San Francisco and Alameda CA Nov-11

Bethlehem Sparrows Point (formerly Maryland Steel)

Sparrows Point MD Jun-11

Federal Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company

Kearny and Newark NJ Nov-10

New York Shipbuilding Company

Camden NJ Jun-11

Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company

Chester PA Aug-11