Puget Sound Naval Shipyard

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Aerial photograph Puget Sound Navy Shipyard (2014)

The Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility (PSNS & IMF) is a naval dockyard of the United States Navy in Bremerton , Washington . The 0.7 km² shipyard, over 200 kilometers from the open sea, is the Navy’s largest coastal facility in the Pacific Northwest and named after Puget Sound . The commanding officer is Captain Mark R. Whitney, USN.

history

The PSNS was founded as a naval port in 1891 and converted into the Navy Yard Puget Sound in 1901 . While ships were still being built there during World War I , the shipyard was mainly responsible for repairing warships during World War II . After the war ended, the shipyard was renamed the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard . At that time, aircraft carriers were being modernized there, such as converting straight to angled flight decks .

In the late 1950s, two ships of the Belknap class and two of the Farragut class as well as one of the Leahy class were built again. In the mid-1960s, the submarine USS Sculpin (SSN-590) was the first nuclear-powered ship to be docked in the shipyard.

The Ship-Submarine Recycling Program has been based in the shipyard since 1990 . All nuclear-powered ships in the Navy that are to be scrapped must go through this program in order to minimize the risk to the environment. Around 25% of the shipyard's work today is in this area, while the shipyard is otherwise involved in overhauls and modernizations.

In addition, the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard houses part of the US Navy's reserve fleet . The “mothballed” ships are moored and serviced there until they are finally decommissioned and released for scrapping. Among other things, the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) is currently (May 2017) there .

The shipyard has had the status of a National Historic Landmark since August 1992 and is listed as a Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places .

Web links

Commons : Puget Sound Naval Shipyard  - Collection of images, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Navy Yard Puget Sound on the National Register of Historic Places , accessed March 11, 2020.
    Listing of National Historic Landmarks by State: Washington. National Park Service , accessed March 11, 2020.

Coordinates: 47 ° 33 ′ 30 ″  N , 122 ° 38 ′ 0 ″  W.