Puget Sound Naval Shipyard
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Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, officially Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility, is a United States Navy shipyard covering 179 acres on Puget Sound at Bremerton, Washington, in
An aerial view of the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility in Bremerton, Washington (USA), on 24 November 2012. Visible are the following ships (top to bottom): aircraft carrier USS Independence (CV-62); USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63); USS Constellation (CV-64); amphibious transport dock ship USS Dubuque (LPD-8); USS Ranger (CV-61); three Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigates; an (active) Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo ship; a Seawolf-class submarine.
Navy Yard views in 1910
Puget Sound Navy Yard in 1913
Aircraft carriers USS Langley (CV-1), USS Saratoga (CV-3), USS Lexington (CV-2) at Puget Sound, 1929
The Ship-Submarine Recycling Program is the process that the United States Navy uses to dispose of decommissioned nuclear vessels. SRP takes place only at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton,
Puget Sound Naval Shipyard
…8 of 65 Evarts-class destroyer escorts (September 1942 - August 1943) USS Greiner (DE-37) ... USS Donaldson (DE-44) In 1990 the Navy authorized the Ship-Submarine Recycling Program (SRP) to recycle nuclear-powered ships at PSNS. Approximately 25% of the shipyard's workload involves inactivation, reactor compartment disposal, and…
In this image, the superstructure of Virginia has been replaced with containment structures to remove nuclear fuel before entering SRP.
Enterprise under tow to Newport News Shipbuilding to begin the defuelling process in June 2013
The hull of Long Beach moored at Puget Sound awaiting disposal in March 2011
A total of sixteen decommissioned SSNs and SSBNs moored awaiting their fate at Puget Sound in May 1993