Each month, we publish selected photos from “Around the Shipyard” that highlight the building process of the National Security Multi-Mission Vessel (NSMV) program.
TOTE Services, LLC, (TOTE Services), Philly Shipyard, Inc., (Philly Shipyard) and California State University Maritime Academy (Cal Maritime) today celebrated the cutting of steel for the fifth National Security Multi-Mission Vessel (NSMV) destined for Cal Maritime in Vallejo, California. This ceremonial event signifies the start of construction for the vessel and occurred at Philly Shipyard’s plasma cutting machine as the button was pressed to start the plasma steel cutting process.
