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Bollinger Shipyards

Bollinger Shipyards is a privately owned U.S. ship manufacturer headquartered in Lockport, Louisiana. Its defense portfolio is centered on Coast Guard and Navy vessels, including the 110-foot Island-class patrol boats, 154-foot Sentinel-class Fast Response Cutters, and programs inherited through the acquisition of VT Halter Marine.

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Founded in 1946 as Donald G. Bollinger's machine shop, Bollinger grew into a Gulf Coast shipbuilding and repair network serving commercial operators and U.S. government customers. The company describes its work as spanning new construction, repair and conversion, design and engineering, dry docks, machine-shop services, and other marine industrial capabilities.

For public defense programs, Bollinger's strongest catalog connection is patrol-craft production for the U.S. Coast Guard. Bollinger-built Island-class cutters entered service as 110-foot patrol boats in the 1980s, while the later Sentinel-class Fast Response Cutter program became a long-running Lockport production line for 154-foot cutters used in law enforcement, search and rescue, fisheries protection, and national-defense missions.

The 2022 purchase of VT Halter Marine and ST Engineering Halter Marine Offshore expanded Bollinger into Pascagoula, Mississippi, where the acquired yards were renamed Bollinger Mississippi Shipbuilding and Bollinger Mississippi Repair. Bollinger said the transaction conveyed ongoing government programs including the Coast Guard Polar Security Cutter and Navy Auxiliary Personnel Lighter-Small programs.

Patrol boatsCoast Guard cuttersNaval auxiliary vesselsShip repair and conversionGovernment vessel new construction

Notable Systems

Island-class patrol boat, 110-foot coastal patrol boat, Naval Systems

Island-class patrol boat

110-foot coastal patrol boat

Bollinger lists the USCG 110-foot Island-class patrol boats among its government and military vessel projects; the Coast Guard also identifies the 110-foot class as the predecessor succeeded by the Fast Response Cutter.

Sources: Bollinger Government and Military Vessels, USCG FRC Contract Option
Sentinel-class Fast Response Cutter, 154-foot fast response cutter, Naval Systems

Sentinel-class Fast Response Cutter

154-foot fast response cutter

The Coast Guard exercised a 2025 option with Bollinger for 10 additional FRCs, raising the ordered total under the current agreement from 67 to 77 cutters.

Sources: USCG FRC Contract Option, Bollinger FRC Award

Manufacturer History

  1. Company founded

    Donald G. Bollinger founded the company as a machine shop serving local agriculture and oil-sector customers before it expanded into Gulf Coast shipbuilding and repair.

    Sources: Bollinger Who We Are

  2. Coast Guard and Navy delivery era begins

    Bollinger states that it has delivered more than 185 vessels to the U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Navy since 1985, anchoring its modern public-defense production role.

    Sources: Bollinger Government and Military Vessels

  3. VT Halter acquisition completed

    Bollinger completed its acquisition of VT Halter Marine and ST Engineering Halter Marine Offshore, renaming the acquired Pascagoula facilities Bollinger Mississippi Shipbuilding and Bollinger Mississippi Repair.

    Sources: Bollinger Halter Acquisition

  4. Additional Fast Response Cutters ordered

    The U.S. Coast Guard exercised a $507 million option with Bollinger for initial construction of 10 additional Fast Response Cutters, increasing the current agreement from 67 to 77 cutters.

    Sources: USCG FRC Contract Option

Subsidiaries
Bollinger Mississippi ShipbuildingBollinger Mississippi Repair
Website links
Official websiteGovernment and military vesselsCoast Guard FRC contract option

Bollinger's Mississippi subsidiaries are listed from the company's 2022 acquisition announcement, which says the acquired Pascagoula facilities were renamed Bollinger Mississippi Shipbuilding and Bollinger Mississippi Repair.

Manufacturer Sources

  • Bollinger Who We ArePublisher: Bollinger Shipyards | Note: Supports Bollinger Shipyards' founding in 1946, family ownership, and position as a U.S. privately owned ship manufacturer. | Accessed: 2026-07-06
  • Bollinger Government and Military VesselsPublisher: Bollinger Shipyards | Note: Supports Bollinger's Coast Guard and Navy vessel portfolio, patrol-boat focus, Island-class listing, and long-running public-defense delivery role. | Accessed: 2026-07-06
  • USCG FRC Contract OptionPublisher: United States Coast Guard | Note: Supports the 2025 option with Bollinger for 10 additional Fast Response Cutters, the $507 million value, and the increase from 67 to 77 ordered cutters. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • Bollinger FRC AwardPublisher: Bollinger Shipyards | Note: Supports Bollinger's Fast Response Cutter production status, delivered and contracted totals, and national supply-chain context. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • Bollinger Halter AcquisitionPublisher: Bollinger Shipyards | Note: Supports Bollinger's completion of the VT Halter Marine and ST Engineering Halter Marine Offshore acquisition, the renamed Mississippi facilities, and conveyed government programs. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • Bollinger HomePublisher: Bollinger Shipyards | Note: Supports current public-facing company context, service areas, Coast Guard vessel totals, and official site imagery. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • Wikimedia Commons P190 SlovianskPublisher: Wikimedia Commons | Note: Supports the profile image choice and CC BY 4.0 licensing metadata for a Bollinger-built Island-class patrol boat. | Accessed: 2026-07-11

Produced weapons

Category

Naval Systems

Warships, submarines, unmanned surface vessels, naval craft, and maritime combat systems.

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Island-class patrol boat, 110-foot coastal patrol boat, Naval Systems2014 Russia-Ukraine WarIsland-class patrol boat110-foot coastal patrol boatBuilt in: United StatesThe Island-class patrol boat is a Bollinger-built 110-foot U.S. Coast Guard cutter design based on a Vosper Thornycroft patrol-boat lineage and later transferred to partner navies. Ukraine received ex-U.S. Coast Guard hulls through a transfer pipeline that began before the 2022 invasion; Sloviansk and Starobilsk entered Ukrainian service in Odesa in 2019, and Sloviansk was later reported sunk during reconnaissance and port-protection missions in the full-scale phase of the 2014 Russia-Ukraine War.
Sentinel-class Fast Response Cutter, 154-foot fast response cutter, Naval Systems2014 Yemen Civil WarSentinel-class Fast Response Cutter154-foot fast response cutterBuilt in: United StatesThe Sentinel-class Fast Response Cutter is a Bollinger-built U.S. Coast Guard patrol cutter derived from a proven Damen parent-craft design and fielded as the 154-foot successor to the Island-class patrol boat. The class combines C5ISR systems, a stabilized 25 mm gun mount, crew-served machine guns, and a stern-launched over-the-horizon boat for coastal security, fisheries patrol, search and rescue, maritime interdiction, and national-defense missions from U.S., Guam, and Bahrain homeports.