Mobile and Baldwin County News
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MOBILE, Ala. — Austal USA celebrated the opening of a new steel shipbuilding facility on Tuesday, marking a major expansion for the Mobile shipbuilder that had long worked exclusively with…
Officials at USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park in Mobile will hold a public ceremony Tuesday marking the 80th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the 1941 surprise assault…
MOBILE, Ala. — Austal USA has delivered the future USS Savannah to the U.S. Navy, marking another milestone for the shipbuilder’s Mobile operations. The delivery hands the Navy a completed…
A $129 million Navy Surface Ship Support Barge disposal project has arrived at the Port of Mobile, part of a broader wave of shipbuilding and industrial growth across the region.
Mobile’s Austal USA shipyard staged one of the most symbolically loaded ceremonies in its history, swinging a ceremonial champagne bottle against the hull of the Navy’s newest littoral combat ship…
More than 100 young men and women raised their right hands and formally entered the U.S. armed forces during the annual Oath of Enlistment Ceremony at Battleship Memorial Park, held…
Austal founder John Rothwell expects the company’s Mobile shipyard to stay busy long after the Navy stops ordering Littoral Combat Ships, with the American operation converting at least half of…
MOBILE, Ala. — Austal USA will break ground Friday on a new steel manufacturing line at its Mobile shipyard, a roughly $100 million expansion that the company says will let…
The U.S. Navy has awarded Austal USA a $235 million contract modification for the detailed design and construction of the fleet’s 15th Expeditionary Fast Transport, keeping the Mobile shipyard’s aluminum…
The U.S. Navy Blue Angels took to the skies over Pensacola in a tribute flyover honoring the city’s grit in the days after Hurricane Sally hammered the Gulf Coast, giving…