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USS Manley (DD-940), named for Captain John Manley (c.1733–1793), was a Forrest Sherman-class destroyer built by the Bath Iron Works Corporation at Bath in Maine.The keel was laid down on 10 February 1955.
Belknap, the first of a new class of guided missile frigates, was laid down by the Bath Iron Works Corporation at Bath in Maine on 5 February 1962. She was christened by Mrs. Leonard B. Cresswell, the granddaughter and daughter of the RADMs Belknap and was launched by the Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine on 20 July 1963 and commissioned on 7 November 1964.
This ship is the 25th destroyer of her class and the 14th of the class to be built at Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine. Construction began on 9 July 1996, she was launched and christened on 3 May 1997, and on 4 December 1998, she was commissioned at Penn's Landing Pier in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania.
Trunnion from a bronze cannon stamped "J R A & CO, T F" (J.R. Anderson & Company, Tredegar Foundry) made at the Tredegar Iron Works By 1860, the Tredegar Iron Works was the largest of its kind in the South , a fact that played a significant role in the decision to relocate the capital of the Confederacy from Montgomery, Alabama , to Richmond in ...
Bath Iron Works: Laid down: 27 October 1953: Launched: 5 February 1955: Commissioned: 9 November 1955: Decommissioned: 5 November 1982: Stricken: 27 July 1990: Fate: Sold for scrapping 15 December 2014: General characteristics; Class and type: Forrest Sherman-class destroyer: Displacement: 2800 Tons Standard, 4050 Tons full load as built, up to ...
Bath Iron Works used the dock to lift new-built guided missile destroyers (DDG) to install sonar domes on the new ships' bows. The USS Samuel B. Roberts was one of the ships serviced at the Bath Iron Works in May 1998. Bath Iron Works built a new land dry lock facility and no longer needed ABSD-3.
Willamette Iron Works (also known as Willamette Iron and Steel Company or WISCO) was a general foundry and machine business established in 1865 in Portland, Oregon, originally specializing in the manufacture of steamboat boilers and engines. In 1904, the company changed its name to Willamette Iron and Steel Works, under which name it operated ...
USS Bigelow (DD-942) was a Forrest Sherman-class destroyer in the United States Navy.The ship was named for Watertender Second Class Elmer Charles Bigelow (1920–1945), who was killed in action extinguishing a magazine fire while serving on board Fletcher during action against enemy Japanese forces off Corregidor in the Philippines on 14 February 1945.