12 Major Shipbuilders

These companies operate (or used to operate) fully developed, large shipyards building large naval combatants and/or deep-draft, oceangoing merchant ships.  They all have (or had) a significant and impressive record of performance, through the good times and the bad.

ACTIVE MAJOR SHIPBUILDERS (6)

General Dynamics - Bath Iron Works Corporation (Bath ME)

General Dynamics - Electric Boat Company (Groton CT)

General Dynamics - NASSCO (San Diego CA)

Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding - Newport News Operations (Newport News VA) (formerly Newport News Shipbuilding)

Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding - Avondale Operations (New Orleans LA) (formerly Avondale Shipyards)

Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding - Ingalls Operations (Pascagoula MS) (formerly Ingalls Shipbuilding)

INACTIVE MAJOR SHIPBUILDERS (6) 

Bethlehem Steel Company (Quincy MA and Squantum MA) (formerly Fore River Shipbuilding, later General Dynamics, Quincy)

Bethlehem Steel Company (San Francisco CA and Alameda CA) (formerly Union Iron Works, now BAE Ship Repair San Francisco)

Bethlehem Steel Company (Sparrows Point MD) (formerly Maryland Steel)

Federal Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company (Kearny NJ)

New York Shipbuilding Company (Camden NJ)

Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company (Chester PA)