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Fitzgerald Leaves Dry Dock In Repair Milestone

Fitzgerald Leaves Dry Dock In Repair Milestone
The USS Fitzgerald (DDG-62) achieved a milestone in its complex repair and restoration as it successfully launched into the water and moored pier-side at Huntington Ingalls Industries Ingalls Shipbuilding shipyard (Photo: U.S. Navy)

The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald (DDG-62) reached a milestone in its repair on April 16 when it successfully left the dry dock and was moored pier-side at the Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII] shipyard in Pascagoula, Miss. The ship’s launch into the water came over a year after HII started repairing, restoring and modernizing the damaged destroyer in January 2018. Work has focused on restoring the integrity of the hull and topside structures damaged in the original collision (Defense…

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