ARLINGTON, Va. — Since 2010 Navy officials expected a small pool of shipyards to bid on producing a new vessel to replace the aging fleet of Rescue and Salvage Ship-class and Fleet Ocean Tug-class. The Navy planned to buy eight special mission ships in the USNS Navy-class T-ATS program would most likely be designed using existing commercial vessel work for starters, and laid down and delivered from yards experienced in commercial offshore salvage and towing, said Chris Paulus, the replacement effort’s program manager with Naval Sea Systems Command, on Wednesday at the 2020 Surface Navy Symposium. “We were looking for … Continue reading Navy’s New Rescue And Salvage Vessel A Decade In The Making