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Bollinger Shipyards is an American constructor of ships, workboats and patrol vessels. [2] Its thirteen shipyards and forty drydocks are located in Louisiana and Texas. Its drydocks range in capacity from vessels of 100 tons displacement to 22,000 tons displacement. The firm was founded in 1946.
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Harold Halter and Jimmy Dubuisson started the original company known as Halter Marine in 1956 in New Orleans; their first built vessel was a 26-foot pleasure boat.The original company would grow to employ more than 4,000 people at its height, but the decline of the offshore oil industry led Halter to sell the company to Trinity Industries in 1983, where it became part of Trinity Marine Group.
Lockport-based Bollinger Shipyards has won a contract that could lead to an estimated $123 million of work building Navy vessels.
Officials from Bollinger Shipyards joined the Coast Guard to commission a cuttter the company delivered ahead of schedule despite Hurricane Ida.
In November 2022, Bollinger Shipyards announced that it would buy VT Halter Marine and oversee the construction of the Polar Security Cutters. [23] On November 22, 2022, Bollinger Shipyards announced it had completed the acquisition of VT Halter Marine and ST Engineer Halter Marine Offshore. Construction of the Polar Security Cutters will still ...
On 26 September 2008 the Coast Guard awarded a contract to Bollinger Shipyards for the lead ship in the Sentinel class which would replace the aging Island class. [2] This contract included options for an additional 33 ships, including Richard Dixon. [3] Richard Dixon was built by Bollinger Shipyards in Lockport, Louisiana.
USCGC Halibut is a United States Coast Guard Marine Protector-class coastal patrol boat based in Marina del Rey, California. [1] Her patrol area is the 300 miles (480 km) from Morro Bay to Dana Point, California, and several important offshore islands.