Talk:Bath Iron Works

message: NPOV? This page seems to be almost an advertisement for Bath Iron Works. Could someone take a look at it? I don't know anything about shipyards, but this page needs work.--V. Joe 00:03, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

message: I appreciate that someone finally discovered the origin of my wikiname. That said, this article still has serious problems
:1) I don't expect a criticism section, but I would like some facts. Such that:
::a)I assume that the article is correct in that the US Navy has been the primary source of Bath contracts, but the article does not say whether or not the Bath Iron Works has produced contracts for other major and minor US and foreign government agencies... For example, the US Army Transportation Corps, the Royal Canadian Navy, the US Coast Guard, Military Sealift Command or NOAA Not to mention completely private concerns like various merchant marine companies? Some shipyards were also put to use producing other mil. equipment like tanks and artillery as well
::b) Labor relations? Is Bath Iron Works a Union concern like some of the other U.S. shipyards like Northrop Grumman Newport News or Electric Boat?
:2) Why the paragraph about the USS Samuel B. Roberts? I admit that it was a singular repair job... but the page on Northrop Grumman does not talk about the repair job on the USS Cole (DDG-67). 
:::a) Nota Bene: the page on Northup Grumman DOES have a criticism/scandal section!
Therefore, I am going to be bold on this article. Cheers V. Joe 16:09, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: On Why POV

message: While I appreciate the work done on the Roberts, the graph was stripped from the article because it seems to have more to do with the ship than the yard--and it is well-covered in the article on the Roberts. (See discussion above.) I'm going to take it back out now, but I'd love to see discussion. (And no, I haven't yet had time to continue the history section I started months ago, if anyone wants to pick it up...) --Pjmorse 19:17, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Think the Roberts repair deserves at least a sentence, if not a whole graf, and not just for the ship's sake. By surviving a hit that NAVSEA engineers thought should have sunk her, the Roberts validated the penny-pinching design of the entire Perry class, the U.S. Navy's largest post-WWII class until the Burkes. More to the point here, Roberts' performance validated the Navy's against-the-odds decision to award the design-and-build contract to BIW, and demonstrated the skill and work ethic of the shipyard that conceived and executed it. So the Roberts would be worth mentioning here even if the repairs had not been done in Maine. But they were -- and they proved to be among the most complicated and difficult warship-repair jobs ever performed, perhaps the most remarkable since the 72-hour turnaround of Yorktown in 1942. Unlike the repair of the Stark, which required the reconstruction of upper modules, the Roberts repair required the 315-ton replacement block to be sledded under the damaged ship and jacked up into place, with a tolerance measured in tenths of an inch. Really, there's not a post-World War II ship that deserves mention in this article if the Roberts does not. PRRfan 04:23, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

text: Seeing no objection, I've readded the graf, with a bit more context.PRRfan 13:37, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: OK. Your added context makes the connection with BIW more specific and relevant to the main article. --Pjmorse 18:08, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
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