Bay Shipbuilding Company
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Bay Shipbuilding Company (BSC) is a shipyard and dry dock company in Sturgeon Bay, Door County, Wisconsin. As of 2015, Bay Ships was a subsidiary of Fincantieri Marine Group and produces articulated tug and barges, OPA-90 compliant double hull tank ships and offshore support vessels.[1] It also provides repair services to the lake freighter fleet.[2] In the past the shipyard located in Sturgeon Bay has operated under several different names and traces its history back to 1918.
Industry | Shipbuilding |
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Predecessor | Sturgeon Bay Shipbuilding and Christy Corporation |
Founded | 1968 (as Bay Shipbuilding) |
Headquarters | Sturgeon Bay, Door County, Wisconsin |
Parent | Fincantieri Marine Group (2009-) Manitowoc Company (1968–2008) |
Website | http://www.bayshipbuildingcompany.com/ |
The company also built 40,000 ton Lake freighters in the 1970s and 1980s. While capable of producing large freighters, the yard had not built a freighter over 20,000 tons since 1987 until the MV Mark W. Barker, launched in 2022. Former names of the shipyards at the 2015 location of Bay Shipbuilding are: Sturgeon Bay Shipbuilding, Leathem D. Smith Shipbuilding Company and Christy Corporation.