Aerospace executive takes over as Bath Iron Works president
Charles F. Krugh of Gulfstream Aerospace takes over at the Bath-based shipbuilder.
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Charles F. Krugh of Gulfstream Aerospace takes over at the Bath-based shipbuilder.
The keel-laying ceremony harkens to the days of sailing vessels when construction began with a keel upon which the ship is built.
General Dynamics Bath Iron Works (BIW) has hosted a keel-laying ceremony for the US Navy's final Arleigh Burke-class destroyer built in the Flight IIA configuration, the future USS Patrick Gallagher (DDG 127).
More than 1,000 people have worked on the ship since the Bath shipbuilder first cut steel. BIW is one of only two builders of the Navy's Burke destroyers.
A Navy destroyer will bear the name of Lance Cpl. Patrick Gallagher, an Irish-born Marine who was killed in Vietnam.