USNI News:
The guided-missile destroyer that suffered a collision with a merchant ship in June off Japan will be transported to Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Mississippi shipyard to be repaired, the Navy told USNI News on Wednesday.
USS Fitzgerald (DDG-62) will be transported by a heavy-lift carrier from its current location at a dry dock in Yokosuka, Japan to Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Miss. for repairs.
A contract to reconstitute the destroyer will be completed by the end of the current fiscal year but the scope of the work has yet to be determined, the service said.
Earlier this month, the Navy issued a solicitation to contract a heavy lift ship to move Fitzgerald to the U.S. for repairs to repair the damage from the impact and subsequent flooding that resulted in the death of seven sailors. The ship could leave Yokosuka as early as next month.
