American Shipbuilding Association

NASSCO
(formerly - National Steel and Shipbuilding Company)
General Dynamics
P.O. Box 85278
San Diego, California 92186-5278
Tel: 619.544.3400
Fax: 619.544.3541
www.nassco.com 

Shipyard highlights:
Two inclined building ways that are 900-feet long and 110-feet wide; a graving dock that is 1,000-feet long and 172.5-feet wide; a floating dry dock that is 820-feet long, 136-feet wide, with a lift capability of 44,000 long tons; seven berthing piers, 10 whirley/portal cranes, with individual lift capacities up to 300 tons and multi-crane lifts up to 640 tons; an automated steel fabrication and subassembly facility; a double-hull block assembly facility, and a corrugated bulkhead assembly line facility, as well as full-service carpenter, machine, pipe, sheet-metal and electrical shops.

Description:
As the only major ship construction yard on the West Coast of the United States, NASSCO is a vital strategic resource.  NASSCO’s versatility as a builder of commercial-classed vessels enables it to design, construct and support auxiliary ships for the U.S. Navy, and oil tankers and dry cargo carriers for Jones Act service in the same facility.  In addition, NASSCO’s convenient location in San Diego provides the Navy a major facility for the repair and upkeep of surface ships in its most significant West Coast homeport, and offers commercial operators a West Coast repair capability.