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PASCAGOULA, Miss. - Ingalls Shipbuilding has received a $482.8 million fixed-price-incentive-firm contract from the U.S. Coast Guard for the construction of a fifth National Security Cutter. Construction of the yet-to-be-named WMSL 754 will be done in Pascagoula facility. Ingalls has delivered the first three NSCs.
Stratton (WMSL 752), the third of eight planned ships, was delivered to the Coast Guard on Sept. 2.
Bertholf (WMSL 750) and
Waesche (WMSL 751) have been commissioned. The start-of-fabrication milestone took place for the fourth cutter,
Hamilton (WMSL 753), on
Aug. 29. (Source:
Huntington Ingalls via Globe Newswire, 09/09/11)
