Ingalls/Litton East Bank Shipyard (Pascagoula, Mississippi)

 Second World War 1939-1945, place with historical importance, shipyard, production

Founded in 1939 by Ingalls Iron Works in anticipation of large scale government contracts for lend/lease programs with allied powers, the East Bank Shipyard began operations with four slipways in 1940 and was quickly expanded to six as the US became involved in the Second World War. Building mainly Victory ships which were then converted to US Navy transports/troopships, the East Bank Shipyard built 61 of the type before the cessation of hostilities, and continued to build them until 1947 when the yard began construction of newer designs of breakbulk cargo ships for US Steamship lines.

As the late 1940s, 1950s progressed the yard became a major producer of cargo ships for both US and foreign customers and was eventually purchased by Litton Industries in 1961, which then used aid from the State of Mississippi to greatly expand the yard into the "Shipyard of the Future". However, much of this expansion took place across the river with the creation of the present-day Ingalls/Northrup Grumman yard, and by 1970 the East Bank yard was beginning to show its age. After 1970, more and more orders were sent to the West Bank yard, and despite a last-ditch attempt to revitalize the East Bank yard to handle the construction of Nuclear Powered Attack Submarines, the East Bank yard launched its final ship in 1974, and saw much of its shipbuilding material transported to the West Bank Yard or liquidated.

In April of 2018 Ingalls announced that it would reactivate the East Bank Shipyard for use as an additional modular construction and outfitting facility, with a forecast operational startup of 2020.

For a complete list of ships built here, please see:
shipbuildinghistory.com/shipyards/large/ingalls.htm