Ingalls-built Arlington (LPD 24) returns from builder's sea trials
The amphibious transport dock Arlington (LPD 24), the eighth built at Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII), recently returned from successful builder's sea trials in the Gulf of Mexico, the Company press release said.
Dock trials started last week, and the ship left HII's Ingalls Shipbuilding division on Aug. 21 for three days of at-sea testing.
Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) designs, builds and maintains nuclear and non-nuclear ships for the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard and provides after-market services for military ships around the globe. For more than a century, HII has built more ships in more ship classes than any other U.S. naval shipbuilder. Employing nearly 38,000 in Virginia, Mississippi, Louisiana and California, its primary business divisions are Newport News Shipbuilding and Ingalls Shipbuilding.