Since 1995, Bath Iron Works has been a subsidiary of General Dynamics, one of the world's largest defense companies.

After the war, he bought a shop that made windlasses and other iron hardware for the wooden ships built in Bath's many shipyards.

In 1899, Hyde was suffering from Bright's Disease and resigned from management of the shipyard, leaving his sons Edward and John in charge.

Bath Iron Works ranked 50th among United States corporations in the value of World War II military production contracts.

The guided missile frigate was towed to the company's dry dock in Portland, Maine, and put up on blocks, where the damaged engine room was cut out of the ship.

Hulls are now moved by rail from the platform horizontally onto a moveable dry dock, which greatly reduced the work involved in building and launching the ships.

[5] In 2015, Bath Iron Works signed contracts with US Navy to build new Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, as well as to conduct maintenance sustainment support of Independence-class littoral combat ships built by competitor Austal USA.

[10] Bath Iron Works operates several offsite facilities in the surrounding mid-coast Maine region, their purposes range from administration to structural fabrication.

The neighboring city of Brunswick, Maine, Contains the most Bath Iron Works offsite facilities of any single municipality.