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 United States Navy maintains a number of its ships as part of a reserve fleet, often called the "Mothball Fleet". While the details of the maintenance activity have changed several times, the basi
Puget Sound Naval Shipyard
…ships. During all this period Puget Sound Naval Shipyard has scrapped more than 125 submarines and some cruisers. The shipyard contains a portion of the United States Navy reserve fleet, a large collection of inactive U.S. Navy vessels. The aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) was mothballed there until May 2022 when it was removed…
Mothballed ships in Suisun Bay, California (2010). The battleship USS Iowa at the right-side end of the group has since become a restored museum ship in San Pedro, Los Angeles.
View of the reserve fleet laid up at Naval Station San Diego, circa in the 1950s
Ships in the US Reserve Fleet at Suisun Bay in 1972
Aerial view of the US Reserve Fleet at Suisun Bay in 1995