Friday, August 18, 2023

Pascagoula, MS: Ingalls Shipbuilding and L&N Depot

Shipyard: (Satellite)
Depot: (Satellite)

MilitaryPhotoDepot posted
(6/17/1983) USS Iowa (BB-61)  High angle view of the battleship Iowa (BB-61) in port at Pascagoula, Mississippi, for conversion and repair prior to being recommissioned. USN Image.
[Some comments indicate that this was probably the 1982-83 refit.]

1:29 video
"IngallsShipbuilding launches the third Flight III Arleigh Burke-class [guided missile] destroyer, Ted Stevens (DDG 128)."
Read the full release here: https://hii.com/.../hii-ingalls-shipbuilding-launches.../
[This 1:29 video is an excellent example of the modern video style that I don't like: a bunch of short scenes that are closeup so that it is hard to figure out what is happening. Sometimes it is going sideways and sometimes it is moving towards its stern. Eventually, it rolled onto a floating drydock and is lowered into the water. Tugs then shove it to a dock for more work.]

Mar San, Jun 2021

Going back to this scene in the video, what we are watching is that they move the ship sidesway to get to the tracks that go along the dock, move down the dock to be across from the floating drydock, and then move sideways again to go onto the drydock. Note how parts of the dockside wall of the drydock are stacked on the rear of the drydock.
Screenshot
 
newsroom via hii
Ingalls has built 35 of the 76 Arleigh Burke-class ship. [Who else makes these destroyers? After some Googling: "Bath Iron Works unit of General Dynamics" [forbes]]

Army Military posted
USS Tripoli (LHA-7) is launched from dry dock, Pascagoula, Mississippi, 1 March 2017

So why didn't they move the drydock over to where the ship is rather than roll the ship down the dock?
3D Satellite

Vedat Odaci, Jul 2020

Harley Flowers, Sep 2018

MilitaryPhotoDepot  posted
Scaffolding surrounds portions of the superstructure of the battleship Wisconsin (BB-64), 17 September 1987. The ship is undergoing overhaul by Ingalls Shipbuilding and is 50 percent complete. Dod Image
Depot


Mark Hinsdale posted
"All Decked Out"
The former Louisville & Nashville station at Pascagoula, Mississippi appears ready for the holidays, as a CSX local makes its way back across the Pascagoula River Moveable Bridge for more industry work on the east side of the river. The power for the train is still wearing the Delaware & Hudson blue, gray and yellow livery, having just come off a lease to D&H and recently returned to CSX. Pascagoula is an interesting rail center on the Gulf of Mexico, situated on the CSX Mobile to New Orleans main line, with considerable local activity. Short Line Mississippi Export (MXE) also comes into town from the north to interchange traffic with CSX. December 16, 1991 photo by Mark Hinsdale
Mark Hinsdale shared

Street View, Oct 2023

1955 Pascagoula Quad @ 62,500

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