Shipbuilders at Bath Iron Works began the new year of 1994 with 12 reasons for optimism. That's the number of Arleigh Burke-class destroyers awarded to the shipyard but not yet delivered to the U ...

The 600-foot, 15,000-ton vessels is being built by General Dynamics in Maine at the Bath Iron Works. Stephen Mallon / Works Artists By the end of the decade, 60 percent of U.S. naval forces will ...