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Sunday, December 01, 2013

PhillyDeals: At site of shipyard, a disassembly industry grows

USS Hawes propellerAt what used to be the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, dozens of workers are taking apart some of the same ships that thousands once built there.

The Navy is paying $8.5 million to Philadelphia Ship Repair L.L.C. to pull out the marine jet engines, propellers and shafts, power transmissions, sonar systems, and compressors from five 1970s-era guided-missile frigates.

The Navy is salvaging those systems so they can be used in surviving frigates - some in U.S. service, some in the navies of Australia, Bahrain, Egypt, Pakistan, Poland, Spain, and Turkey.

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