Ingalls Shipbuilding

Ingalls Shipbuilding is an American shipyard, based in Pascagoula, Mississippi.

The Group was founded in 1938 at the mouth of the Pascagoula River into the Gulf of Mexico by Robert Ingalls and built at the beginning only merchant ships, including freighters, tankers and cruise ships. In the early 1950s, Ingalls then applied for tenders of the United States Navy in 1957 and won an order for submarines of the Sturgeon class. A total of twelve nuclear-powered boats were built there and eleven more obsolete. 1961 acquired Litton Industries shipyard and assimilated it into the group.

Ingalls was involved in the construction of several other warship classes. These were the Tarawa - class, the Kidd - class, the Spruance class, the Ticonderoga class. Still being built on the Wasp - class and Arleigh Burke - class. The Zumwalt class is planned from the Ingalls and Bath Iron Works. Since 1975, the Group delivered 82 warships of the U.S. Navy and builds and outdated also for foreign navies, including the Sa'ar -5 class for Israel was manufactured.

Today, the Group has over 10,000 employees the largest private employer in Mississippi, with a high of 25,000 in 1977. Starting in 2001, belonged to Northrop Grumman Ingalls and was incorporated there in the Ship Systems division. This was 2011 in a legally independent company, Huntington Ingalls Industries, hived off.