Bayou La Batre, Alabama Bayou La Batre, Alabama Website City of Bayou La Batre Website Bayou La Batre (/ ba .tri/ or small-town / btri/) is a town in Mobile County, Alabama, United States.

Bayou La Batre is a fishing village with a seafood-processing harbor for fishing boats and shrimp boats.

Bayou La Batre was the first permanent settlement on the south Mobile County mainland and was established in 1786, when French-born Joseph Bouzage (Bosarge) [1733-1795] was awarded a 1,259-acre (509 ha) Spanish territory grant on the West Bank of the bayou (see history below).

The undivided City of Bayou La Batre was incorporated in 1955.

Bayou La Batre was featured in the 1994 film Forrest Gump and the book upon which it is based.

In April 2005, Disney Studios launched a secretly assembled pirate ship, the Black Pearl, out of Bayou La Batre for recording sequels to Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Bayou La Batre's seafood trade also serves as a centerpiece for the History channel's reality documentary series Big Shrimpin'. On August 29, 2005, the region was devastated by Hurricane Katrina, which produced the biggest storm surge ever recorded in the area, reaching nearly 16 ft (5 m) and pushing many shrimp boats and the cargo ship M/V Caribbean Clipper onto shore.

Aerial view of Bayou La Batre from the harbor entrance on the Gulf of Mexico.

As part of the French settlement of the Gulf Coast, the bayou was originally called "Riviere D'Erbane" and acquired the present name from the French-maintained battery of artillery on the west bank ("bayou of the battery").

Bayou La Batre was the first permanent settlement on the south Mobile County mainland and was established in 1786, when Joseph Bouzage (Bosarge) [1733-95] moved into the region and was awarded a 1,259-acre (509 ha) Spanish territory grant on the bayou's west bank.

Cargo ship and boats aground at Bayou La Batre, Alabama, after Hurricane Katrina.

On August 29, 2005, the region was devastated by Hurricane Katrina, with a small-town storm surge of nearly 16-foot (5 m) and higher waves that engulfed Bayou La Batre and pushed over 23 shrimp boats and the cargo ship M/V Caribbean Clipper onto shore. The captain rode out Katrina on the 179-foot (55 m) cargo ship, owned by Caribbean Shipping Inc., and the ship was returned to sea six months later, using a large crane. In October 2005, seven weeks after Hurricane Katrina, Bayou La Batre was adopted by the City of Santa Monica, California (see: "Santa Monica Pier") to assist in clean-up activities. The Santa Monica City Council allowed loaning Bayou La Batre 18 vehicles, including six pickups, two trucks with large cranes, utility vehicles with lesser cranes, a dump truck, street sweepers, a riding lawnmower, and six chainsaws. The equipment was used to help remove debris and fishing boats from downtown; however, the larger shrimp boats that were washed into the encircling woods by the flood waters remain there today.

Bayou La Batre is a center for ship assembly.

People from all over the world including the United States, South America, and Africa have boats assembled in Bayou La Batre incessantly.

In 2005, Steiner Ship Yard was asked by Walt Disney Studios to build a pirate ship, the Black Pearl; the pitch-black ship was actually a huge wooden prop assembled on top of a undivided 96-foot-long steel utility boat.

Crews sailed the ship out of the bayou to the Caribbean for the recording of sequels to Disney's 2003 film "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl".

Another ship, the FV Cornelia Marie from the Deadliest Catch series, was assembled in Bayou La Batre in 1989. Bayou La Batre is positioned at 30 24 12 N 88 14 53 W (30.403253, -88.248117). According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Bayou La Batre has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. Climate data for Bayou La Batre, Alabama As of the 2010 Census, Bayou La Batre had a populace of 2,558. The ethnic and ethnic composition of the populace was 60.3% white, 12.3% black or African American, 0.4% Native American, 22.8% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 1.0% from some other race, 3.2% from two or more competitions and 2.8% Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Bayou la Batre was a prominent destination for such immigrants because it fostered and continues to foster a similar shrimping trade to that of Vietnam.

Bayou La Batre is served by the Mobile County Public School System.

The town/city has Booth (formerly Alba) Elementary School, Alba Middle School, and Secondary enhance school Alma Bryant High in Irvington, where all the high school students attend.

Bryant High School also encompasses students from outside the Bayou La Batre-Coden region from neighboring Grand Bay, Alabama, Irvington, St.

Bryant, assembled in 1998, slightly delayed by Hurricane Georges, and Booth, assembled in 2006, delayed by Hurricane Katrina, are positioned on Hurricane Boulevard.

Both schools' students were (in part) positioned in what is now Alba Middle School further south in Bayou La Batre.

Alba High School first combined with Grand Bay High School in 1998 in the newly built, centrally positioned Alma Bryant High School, positioned on 16th Section territory (land dedicated for school purposes).

Alba Middle (which was in great part positioned in portable classrooms and was a part of the high School campus, as was Grand Bay Middle) took over the high school building, greatly relieving overcrowding.

Similarly, the Alba Elementary Campus which shared territory with the middle school, while being mostly autonomous, also became part of Alba Middle School.

Alba and Grand Bay Middle are the focal point of bus routes for all school buses for Bryant High, those buses shared in grades 6-12 as a cost-saving accomplishment to avoid overlapping routes for the separate schools.

The library is positioned on Wintzell Avenue in the Bayou La Batre office of Boat People SOS, a nationwide group that assists Vietnamese-Americans.

Bayou La Batre is mentioned in the 1994 film Forrest Gump and in Winston Groom's book of the same name on which the movie is based as the home of Forrest's army buddy Benjamin Buford "Bubba" Blue, and later as the home of Forrest Gump himself amid his time as a shrimp boat captain. Shrimping scenes in the film were filmed in the Lowcountry region of South Carolina, primarily in the communities of Beaufort and Port Royal.

"Bayou La Batre city".

Bayou La Batre Chamber of Commerce, official web site.

"Pirates of the Bayou" (2005-01-23), Russ Henderson, Mobile Register, webpage: POTC2-page4.

"News Release - 10/20/2005 - City of Santa Monica" (help after Hurricane Katrina), Santa Monica, CA, 2005, webpage: SMgov-news-051020: states "location for the Bubba Gump scenes in the movie "Forrest Gump"..." Climate Summary for Bayou La Batre, Alabama Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bayou La Batre, Alabama.

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