Sailors stand watch on the bridge of the amphibious dock landing ship USS Oak Hill (LSD 51), which is scheduled for repair work next month at the General Dynamics shipyard in Norfolk. (US Navy/Justin Yarborough)
NORFOLK, Va. — No more lonely nights. Or days.
General Dynamics NASSCO’s Norfolk shipyard, the former Metro Machine yard, has been shipless since early April, when the destroyer Mitscher left.
On Wednesday, the Pentagon announced that the Navy has awarded the yard a $ 42 million modification to a previously awarded contract for repair work on the dock landing ship Oak Hill.
The ship should be arriving at the yard, just off the Berkley Bridge, sometime next month and will be there through March or so, said Bill Crow, president of the Virginia Ship Repair Association, a Norfolk-based trade group.
It will undergo work such as engine replacement/repairs, b…
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