Simply put, the 300 ft tall towers can be built in dry docks at shipbuilding facilities, like Bath Iron Works, and then floated out into position.

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The first foray in implementing the new strategy was purchase of the Bath Iron Works shipyard in Maine, an enterprise so distressed that it seemed nearly worthless on paper.

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Our tradition ranges from Hiram S. Maxim, inventor of the first fully automatic machine gun, who was born in 1840 in Sangerville, Maine, to the renowned Bath Iron Works, which produces the world's most advanced surface warships.

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