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Ingalls Shipbuilding’s seventh LPD completes builder’s sea trials

Issue No. 11 | June 01-15, 2012

Huntington Ingalls Industries announced that the company’s seventh amphibious transport dock, Anchorage (LPD 23), returned from successful builder’s sea trials in the Gulf of Mexico. The ship is currently under construction at Ingalls’ Avondale facility.

“The LPD 23 team just finished one of the most successful builder’s trials of any LPD so far,” said Doug Lounsberry, Ingalls’ Vice President and Programme Manager, LPD 17 Programme. “The ship demonstrated its quality through operational testing over the past four days, including propulsion, steering, navigation, communications and weapons. ”

The ship will now prepare for acceptance sea trials to demonstrate the same tests and seaworthiness to the US Navy’s Board of Inspection and Survey (INSURV). The ship is scheduled to be delivered to the Navy this year.