USS Ramage returns to Ingalls shipyard for improvements

PASCAGOULA, Miss. - The USS Ramage will return to the Ingalls Shipbuilding's Pascagoula shipyard on Nov. 21 for an overhaul.The destroyer was built at Ingalls in the mid-1990s.The Mississippi Press reports Ingalls was recently awarded a contract valued at $21.4 million to modernize the Ramage. The overhaul of the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer will include ship alterations, repairs, testing, and procurement of materials. The work is expected to be complete by late 2017.The Ramage was the fifth of