USS Fitzgerald Leaves Ingalls Shipbuilding for New Homeport In San Diego, 3 Years After Fatal Collision
By: Megan Eckstein
June 13, 2020 3:19 PM
The guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) prepares to depart Huntington Ingalls Industries, Ingalls Shipbuilding division’s Pascagoula shipyard June 13 to return to her homeport in San Diego. The sail away reflects more than two years’ worth of effort in restoring and modernizing one of the Navy’s most capable warships after it was damaged during a collision in 2017 that claimed the lives of seven Sailors. Huntington Ingalls Industries photo.
Destroyer USS Fitzgerald (DDG-62) left the Ingalls Shipbuilding yard in Mississippi to return to the fleet today, almost three years to the day after a collision with a merchant ship that killed seven sailors
The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer was transported on a heavy-lift ship to Ingalls Shipbuilding in January 2018 for repairs, following the June 17, 2017, collision. The ship was brought into the dry dock there for repairs until its undocking in April 2019, and pierside work continued until earlier this year.
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