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PCU Makin Island (LHD-8) while under construction at Litton-Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. Pascagoula. MS, 20 May 2005. Northrop Grumman Ship Systems photo |
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PCU Makin Island (LHD-8) while under construction at Litton-Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. Pascagoula. MS, 11 August 2006. Northrop Grumman Ship Systems photo |
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PCU Makin Island (LHD-8) sponsor, Mrs. Silke B. Hagee, christens the ship with a bottle of champagne across her bow at the ships launching, 19 August 2006, at Litton-Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. Pascagoula. MS. Northrop Grumman Ship Systems photo |
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PCU Makin Island (LHD-8) begins her first at sea period to conduct Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding (NGSB) Builder's Sea Trials in the Gulf of Mexico, 9 December 2008. US Navy photo from the USS Makin Island web site. |
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PCU Makin Island (LHD-8) departs the Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding Gulf Coast shipyard for five days of Builder's Trials to tests a wide variety of systems and equipment. More than 100 Makin Island Sailors were embarked to observe and monitor the testing conducted be Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding personnel. Makin Island, scheduled for commissioning 24 October 2009 in San Diego, will be the Navy's eighth and final Wasp Class amphibious assault ship. US Navy photo # 081209-N-2225N-002 GULF OF MEXICO (Dec. 9, 2008) by MC3 Alec Noe. |
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The well deck of Pre-Commissioning Unit PCU Makin Island (LHD-8) is flooded as Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding Gulf Coast personnel open the stern gate during a five-day Builders Trial underway. US Navy photo # 081210-N-3357M-005 GULF OF MEXICO (Dec. 10, 2008) by MCC W. Scott Mishley. |
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Pre-Commissioning Unit PCU Makin Island (LHD-8) at sea for Builder's Trials in the Gulf of Mexico, 9 December 2009. |
Courtesy Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding (NGXB), Gulf Coast. |
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PCU Makin Island (LHD-8) returns to Northrop Grumman's shipyard at Pascagoula, MS., 20 March 2009 after completing US Navy acceptance sea trial in the Gulf of Mexico. The ship is the eighth USS Wasp (LHD-1)-class amphibious assault ship being built Northrop Grumman at its Gulf Coast facilities in Pascagoula, MS. Photo courtesy of Northrop Grumman Corporation |
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US Navy Sailors and Northrop Grumman shipbuilders together manned the flight deck PCU Makin Island (LHD-8) as Northrop Grumman Corporation's Shipbuilding sector delivered to the ship to the US Navy at Pascagoula, MS, 16 April 2009. Photo courtesy of Northrop Grumman Corporation |
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