This year’s defense spending bill approves three Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, which Bath Iron Works can bid to build.
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Senate passes defense bill with potential benefits for BIW
The annual national defense act authorizes three new Navy warships that Bath Iron Works could bid on.
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Bath museum’s new exhibit reveals Maine’s connection to the slave trade
Artifacts featured in the new exhibit reveal Bath-built ships and Maine captains and crews transported both enslaved people and crops manufactured by slavery.
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Bath shipyard remains quiet on potential fallout of vaccine mandate for federal contractors
Bath Iron Works continues to refuse to answer questions regarding how many workers are vaccinated against COVID-19, how many have quit over the requirement, and what the company’s contingency plan is.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World
Navy commissions Bath-built, Pearl Harbor-based USS Daniel Inouye
Inouye was the first Japanese American to serve in Congress when he was elected to the House in 1959, the year Hawaii became a state.
Posted inTimes Record
House passes defense bill calling for potential Bath-built ships
The NDAA authorizes three Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, the main type of ship BIW builds, but doesn’t dictate which shipyard will construct the ships.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State
Senate hampers passage of annual defense bill that funds Bath-built ships
Sixty Senators needed to vote to open debate on its version of the National Defense Authorization Act, but that vote failed 45-51.
Posted inTimes Record
Two more passengers sue Bath museum over schooner capsizing
The suit claims the schooner’s owner, the Maine Maritime Museum in Bath, is to blame for a vessel that was not seaworthy and for a captain and crew “unfit, incompetent, ill experienced” and “ill trained.”
Posted inLocal & State, Times Record
More vaccine mandate protests planned at Bath shipyard
The protest is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 14 outside the Local S6 union hall on Washington Street in Bath.
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Bath museum denies allegations from passenger involved in Mary E capsizing
In court documents filed Tuesday, Maine Maritime Museum denies claims made by a passenger that the vessel wasn’t seaworthy and the crew was poorly trained.