{"id":25189,"date":"2026-02-20T04:29:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T04:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/?p=25189"},"modified":"2026-02-20T04:29:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T04:29:56","slug":"new-berthing-and-messing-barge-delivered-to-us-navy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/?p=25189","title":{"rendered":"New berthing and messing barge delivered to US Navy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    New berthing and messing barge delivered to US Navy<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Bollinger Shipyards of Louisiana has handed over a new berthing and messing barge to the US Navy.<\/p>\n<p><em>APL 72<\/em> belongs to a class of barges designated by the navy as the auxiliary personnel lighter\u2013small (APL(S)) vessels. The first two APL(S) vessels, <em>APL 70 <\/em>and<em> APL 71<\/em>, were delivered to the navy in 2022 and 2023, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The APL(S) are used by the navy to house crewmembers when ships are in port for availabilities and inter-deployment training cycles.<\/p>\n<aside><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bairdmaritime.com\/work-boat-world\/other-workboats\/vessel-review-yrbm-57-us-navy-welcomes-new-class-of-berthing-and-messing-barge-to-auxiliary-fleet\">VESSEL REVIEW | YRBM-57 \u2013 US Navy welcomes new class of berthing and messing barge to auxiliary fleet<\/a><\/aside>\n<p>Bollinger tailors the barges&#8217; mobility requirement into the design, ensuring that these can be towed to new bases or shipyards to support changing fleet requirements.<\/p>\n<p>The builder said such mobility offers additional capabilities to serve humanitarian missions and other temporary assignments.<\/p>\n<p>Each APL(S) is 269 feet (82 metres) long and 69 feet (21 metres) wide and has a draught of seven feet (2.1 metres).<\/p>\n<p>Each vessel is also equipped with offices, classrooms, washrooms, laundry facilities, medical treatment areas, a barber shop, and a fitness centre.<\/p>\n<p>With mess seating for 224 enlisted personnel and 28 officers, each meal is served via five 20-minute shifts to allow food service for 1,130 personnel (three meals per day).<\/p>\n<p>The vessels are also fitted with mixed-gender berthing spaces for 74 officers and 537 enlisted personnel, for a total of 611 people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Will Xavier<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bairdmaritime.com\/work-boat-world\/other-workboats\/new-berthing-and-messing-barge-delivered-to-us-navy\">Go to baird maritime<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Bollinger Shipyards of Louisiana has handed over a new berthing and messing barge to the US Navy.<\/p>\n<p><em>APL 72<\/em> belongs to a class of barges designated by the navy as the auxiliary personnel lighter\u2013small (APL(S)) vessels. The first two APL(S) vessels, <em>APL 70 <\/em>and<em> APL 71<\/em>, were delivered to the navy in 2022 and 2023, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The APL(S) are used by the navy to house crewmembers when ships are in port for availabilities and inter-deployment training cycles.<\/p>\n<aside><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bairdmaritime.com\/work-boat-world\/other-workboats\/vessel-review-yrbm-57-us-navy-welcomes-new-class-of-berthing-and-messing-barge-to-auxiliary-fleet\">VESSEL REVIEW | YRBM-57 \u2013 US Navy welcomes new class of berthing and messing barge to auxiliary fleet<\/a><\/aside>\n<p>Bollinger tailors the barges&#8217; mobility requirement into the design, ensuring that these can be towed to new bases or shipyards to support changing fleet requirements.<\/p>\n<p>The builder said such mobility offers additional capabilities to serve humanitarian missions and other temporary assignments.<\/p>\n<p>Each APL(S) is 269 feet (82 metres) long and 69 feet (21 metres) wide and has a draught of seven feet (2.1 metres).<\/p>\n<p>Each vessel is also equipped with offices, classrooms, washrooms, laundry facilities, medical treatment areas, a barber shop, and a fitness centre.<\/p>\n<p>With mess seating for 224 enlisted personnel and 28 officers, each meal is served via five 20-minute shifts to allow food service for 1,130 personnel (three meals per day).<\/p>\n<p>The vessels are also fitted with mixed-gender berthing spaces for 74 officers and 537 enlisted personnel, for a total of 611 people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,566,681,3749,3872],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-25189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baird-maritime","category-naval-auxiliary-support","category-other-workboats","category-security-vessel-shipbuilding","category-workboat-shipbuilding","tag-baird-maritime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}