Navy ship collision repairs at Ingalls
The U.S. Navy is adding another $57 million to what it’s paying a Mississippi shipyard to repair a destroyer damaged in a June collision that killed seven sailors.
The additional contract for repairing the USS Fitzgerald was awarded Tuesday to Ingalls Shipbuilding of Pascagoula. The destroyer arrived at Ingalls in January.
A June 17th collision with a Philippine flagged container ship caved in parts of the Fitzgerald above and below the waterline. Ingalls already received a $63 million contract to rip out damaged areas. Repair and modernization are expected to take until mid-2019.
Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer has said it could cost $600 million combined to repair the Fitzgerald and the USS John S. McCain, another destroyer that was damaged in August.
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