Bollinger Shipyards

The United States Coast Guard has called upon Bollinger Shipyards to build many of its patrol vessels.

All of the eight refitted 123-foot (37 m) Island-class cutters' hulls would crack when driven at high speed in a heavy seas, and proved to be so unseaworthy that they were all withdrawn from service, forcing the scrapping of the conversion program.

[9] In May 2016 the U.S. Coast Guard signed a new contract with Bollinger to build 26 additional vessels, bringing the total on order to 58, at a cost of almost $3.8 billion.

[11] The 154-foot (47 m) 240-ton vessels are staffed by a mixed-sex crew of 22, and are armed with a remote-operated Mk 38 Mod 2 25 mm autocannon and four .50 caliber crew-served Browning M2 machine guns.

[12] Bollinger was one of five contractors which bid to build new heavy polar icebreakers for the United States Coast Guard.

Bollinger announced that, if it were the winning bidder, it would have built the icebreakers in its Tampa, Florida shipyard, which it predicted would have employed 1,000 workers for ten years.

These ships can provide full mission support for Navy SEALs and other special operations forces.

[19] As of 2015, ten of the U.S. Navy's thirteen Cyclone-class patrol ships were deployed to the Persian Gulf in case of a potential conflict with Iran.

[21] In April 2021, Bollinger bought the contract to build seven U.S. Navy Navajo-class rescue and salvage ship from Gulf Island Fabrication.