Bath Iron Works, known as BIW, is a major American shipyard on the Kennebec River in Bath, Maine. It was founded in 1884 as Bath Iron Works, Limited, and has been a subsidiary of General Dynamics since 1995. It has built private, commercial and military vessels, most of them ordered by the United States Navy, and its first full-vessel contract in 1890 was for two iron gunboats, one of which, Machias, was its first launched ship. The yard built the battleship Georgia in 1904 and, at its peak during the Second World War, launched a destroyer every 17 days. In recent years it has delivered Arleigh Burke-class destroyers such as Rafael Peralta, Thomas Hudner, Daniel Inouye and Carl M. Levin. It is one of the largest employers in Maine.
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