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A Higgins Industries torpedo boat plant in New Orleans, 1942. Higgins Industries was the company owned by Andrew Higgins based in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.. Higgins Industries is most famous for the design and production of the Higgins boat, an amphibious landing craft referred to as LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel), which was used extensively in the Allied forces' D-Day ...
Swiftships is a shipbuilding and marine engineering company headquartered in South Louisiana, USA. [1] Company operates globally [2] and specialized in the construction of small to medium sized vessels made of steel, aluminum or fiberglass. [1] [3] Swiftships is involved in ship design, construction, repair and maintenance activities.
Metal Shark Boats is an American developer and builder of aluminum-hull vessels that operates shipyards in Jeanerette and Franklin, Louisiana. [1] It offers a variety of vessels ranging from commercial transportation to specialized law enforcement and military applications.
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.
Deluge is a fireboat (also referred to as a firefighting tug) in New Orleans, Louisiana.Built by Johnson Drydock & Shipbuilding Co. of New Orleans in 1923, [3] she was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1989.
It closed in October 2014. The yard was located on the west bank of the Mississippi River in an area called Bridge City, about 20 miles (32 km) upriver from New Orleans near Westwego, Louisiana. It was the site of the modernization of the battleship USS Iowa in the early 1980s and also constructed some of the lighter aboard ships (LASH). At one ...
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