From the July 20, 2021, WXII 12 News NBC, AP.
The nearly four year project to repair the hull of the battleship USS North Carolina, moored across the Cape Fear River from Wilmington, North Carolina, was officially over Tuesday, July 20, when waters from the river flooded into the temporary barrier (cofferdam) erected around the ship.
A Wilmington-based company cut and replaced steel in the now and also did work and repainted affected areas of the hull.
The $11 million project began in August 2016 with the construction of a cofferdam around the ship which allowed work crews to drain the river water out and have access to the ship's brittle hull. With cofferdam construction completed in May 2018, work was begun t replace steel at the ship's water-wind line which began in June 2020.
--GreGen
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