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Three tugs and a Coast Guard vessel escort a barge up the Kennebec River Friday morning, heading for Bath Iron Works. The structure aboard the barge is the deck house, or superstructure, for the first of three Zumwalt-class U.S. Navy destroyers that will be built at the Bath yard. BIW got the contract to build the ship, but the contract to build the deck house was awarded to a competing shipyard, Huntington Ingalls Industries in Gulfport, Miss., according to BIW spokesman Jim DeMartini. The first ship is expected to be ready to deploy in 2016. The ship will cost $3.5 billion.
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