Last week, Bollinger Shipyards delivered the first Bollinger-built Auxiliary Personnel Lighter–Small (APL(S)) Class berthing and messing barge (APL 71) to the U.S. Navy. APL 71 is the fifth vessel of ...

U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command has exercised an option with Conrad Shipyard to build another Yard, Repair, Berthing, and Messing (YRBM) barge.The award is a $18,484,619 firm-fixed-price modification ...

Even in the best of times, utilitarian U.S. Navy tugs, patrol vessels and miscellaneous small service craft get little respect. Today, with funds short and America’s Navy now run and ruled by a pair ...

H.R.3219, Department of Defense Appropriations Act, FY2018, Navy small boat program and procurement Navy Small Boat modernization, including PB-X and APLs H.R.3219, Department of Defense ...

In June 2021, a Navy barge used in dockside nuclear refueling operations arrived in Mobile to be dismantled. The company handling the multimillion-dollar job has announced that work is complete. “This ...