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Monday, January 7, 2013

Excellent Teamwork; It all falls into place for record-breaking 900-ton lift at Bath Iron Works

By Christopher Cousins, BDN Staff

BATH, Maine — In 128 years of building warships for the Navy, Bath Iron Works has achieved innumerable mind-boggling accomplishments, but never anything like what happened at 2:04 a.m. on December 15.

That’s when the deckhouse of the shipyard’s newest project, the DDG 1000 Zumwalt-class destroyer, first made contact with the rest of the next-generation warship. Hoisting the 900-ton deckhouse 89 feet in the air shattered the shipyard’s previous heaviest lift by more than double.

“I’d say there was a sigh of relief across the shipyard,” said Bruce Gadaree, who is responsible for heavy lifts at BIW. “There were probably a lot of group hugs going around.”