Long Beach Naval Shipyard
The Long Beach Naval Shipyard was a shipyard of the United States Navy in California . It was on Terminal Island , between Long Beach and San Pedro .
history
On February 9, 1943, the US Naval Dry Docks, Roosevelt Base, California was established to have a shipyard facility in the Los Angeles area. During the Second World War this was actually needed in order to be able to repair war damage quickly. In August 1945 the shipyard employed over 16,000 civil employees. In late 1945 the name of the facility was changed to Terminal Island Naval Shipyard , and in 1948 it was renamed the definitive Long Beach Naval Shipyard . On June 1, 1950, the shipyard was closed again. With the beginning of the Korean War , however, the shipyard became important again for the Navy, so that it reopened on January 4, 1951.
The shipyard also remained active during the Cold War , it was mainly used as a repair and overhaul shipyard for all non-nuclear work. Dry Dock 1 was selected as the primary emergency dock for the Navy aircraft carriers on the west coast. Ships overhauled in Long Beach may include a. the aircraft carriers USS Constellation and USS Yorktown , the battleships USS New Jersey and USS Missouri, and the nuclear cruiser USS Truxtun . In its work, the shipyard also used the German floating crane YD-171 built during World War II .
After the end of the Cold War, the shipyard was closed in 1997. Shortly before that, the shipyard employed 3000 civilian employees.
Web links
- Long Beach Naval Shipyard on fas.org (English)
Coordinates: 33 ° 45 ′ 13.9 ″ N , 118 ° 13 ′ 57.2 ″ W.