Category: Pickering

Austal USA lays keel of its first OPC: Pickering (WMSM 919) Austal USA yesterday hosted a keel laying ceremony for Pickering (WMSM 919), the first U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Heritage-class Offshore Patrol Cutter (OPC) to be built at the company’s Mobile, Ala., shipyard. Pickering (WMSM 919). is being built under a contract that includes up…