page_title: Puget Sound Naval Shipyard Historic District
section_title: Post-war
hierarchical_section_title: Puget Sound Naval Shipyard Historic District / Post-war
caption_attribution_description: The U.S. Navy guided missile destroyer USS John Paul Jones (DDG-32), the guided missile destroyer USS Decatur (DDG-31) and the destroyer USS Turner Joy (DD-951) laid up at the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bemerton, Washington (USA), in 1990. In the background at left is the aircraft carrier USS Bon Homme Richard (CVA-31).
context_page_description: Puget Sound Naval Shipyard is a large military-industrial complex located in Bremerton, Washington along the north shore of Sinclair Inlet, which opens to Puget Sound. This large shipyard is 1.5 miles in length along the shore and over a half-mile in width at its greatest distance across. The shipyard has nearly 1,000 facilities such as shipfitters shops, repair shops, drydocks, piers, cranes, crane rails, railways, and tunnels. In addition to the industrial facilities, supporting structures include: residences for officers and enlisted personnel, recreation facilities, boiler, electrical substations, fuel tanks, medical facilities, and canteens. The historic district is just over a tenth of the entire shipyard, 189 acres of the shipyard's 1,347 acres. Its greatest significance was during the Second World War when it repaired large warships damaged in the Pacific theater. It was designated a National Historic Landmark District in 1992.
context_section_description: On December 1, 1945, the navy yard's name was changed to Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. After the war, the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility became a tenant at the shipyard. Until 1998, USS Missouri was moored here, and was for a time open to visitors.
  Inactive ships today include aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers, and submarines. Puget Sound Naval Shipyard has remained active since World War II. During the Korean War, it was engaged in a ship activation program. In 1957, construction of guided missile ships began. Since 1961, Puget Sound has been engaged in the repair of both conventional and nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, surface ships, and submarines.
caption: The U.S. Navy guided missile destroyer USS John Paul Jones, the guided missile destroyer USS Decatur and the destroyer USS Turner Joy laid up at the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bemerton, Washington (USA), in 1990. In the background at left is the aircraft carrier USS Bon Homme Richard.
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