PSNS & IMF provides the Navy with maintenance, modernization, and technical and logistics support, and employs 14,000 people. ==History== Puget Sound Naval Shipyard was established in 1891 as a Naval Station and was designated Navy Yard Puget Sound in 1901.
PSNS & IMF provides the Navy with maintenance, modernization, and technical and logistics support, and employs 14,000 people. ==History== Puget Sound Naval Shipyard was established in 1891 as a Naval Station and was designated Navy Yard Puget Sound in 1901.
In October 2014, the US EPA ordered the Navy to fix the problems. ==Gallery== Image:Puget Sound Naval Shipyard 1913.jpg|Puget Sound Navy Yard in 1913 Image:PugetSoundNavalShipyardMothballs.jpg|The mothball fleet in Puget Sound Naval Shipyard Image:PugetSoundNavalShipyardWideView.jpg|Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, as seen from across the water in Port Orchard.
The historic district includes 22 contributing buildings and 42 contributing structures, as well as 49 non-contributing buildings, structures, and objects. ==Installations== Perhaps the most visible feature of the shipyard is its huge green hammerhead crane, built in 1933.
In the late 1950s, it entered an era of new construction with the building of a new class of guided missile frigates.
In 1965, USS Sculpin (SSN 590) became the first nuclear-powered submarine to be maintained at PSNS.
Kitty Hawk is mothballed, meaning that she is stored in case she is needed by the Navy in the future. ==Environmental issues== Gorst Creek Ravine near Port Orchard, Washington was a hazardous waste dump for the Navy's shipyard waste between 1969 and 1970, when the site was not permitted by local authorities to take waste.
Kitty Hawk is mothballed, meaning that she is stored in case she is needed by the Navy in the future. ==Environmental issues== Gorst Creek Ravine near Port Orchard, Washington was a hazardous waste dump for the Navy's shipyard waste between 1969 and 1970, when the site was not permitted by local authorities to take waste.
The shipyard was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1992.
After several collapses since 1997 the landfill could blow out Highway 3.
On 15 May 2003 PSNS and IMF were consolidated into what is now known as PSNS & IMF. PSNS is the only U.S.
In October 2014, the US EPA ordered the Navy to fix the problems. ==Gallery== Image:Puget Sound Naval Shipyard 1913.jpg|Puget Sound Navy Yard in 1913 Image:PugetSoundNavalShipyardMothballs.jpg|The mothball fleet in Puget Sound Naval Shipyard Image:PugetSoundNavalShipyardWideView.jpg|Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, as seen from across the water in Port Orchard.
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