Hurricane Michael Wipes Out Panama City Yard Building New Coast Guard Cutters
Hurricane Michael destroyed more than homes, marinas and recreational boats in the Panama City, Florida, area. It also wiped out the family-owned shipyard that was just starting work on a $10 billion contract to build the Coast Guard’s new Offshore Patrol Cutters. The company had just started building the first hull. Here’s the full story from Breaking Defense: Amid the devastation wrought by Hurricane Michael last week is a family-owned shipyard the Coast Guard had just picked to work on the $10 billion Offshore Patrol Cutter program, the largest acquisition project in the service’s history. The Eastern Shipbuilding Group in…