Shipyard
Assembly facility for Aker Maritime, a major offshore oil rig manufacturer. Huge rigs are assembled here and at Aker's Ingleside yard, located three miles south on the Intracoastal Waterway. The yard covers 160 acres, with several large shed structures for fabrication and milling pipe, and has 3,...
Assembly facility for Aker Maritime, a major offshore oil rig manufacturer. Huge rigs are assembled here and at Aker's Aransas Pass yard, located three miles north on the Intracoastal Waterway. The yard covers 180 acres, and has direct access to the Gulf of Mexico via the Corpus Christi Ship...
Bath Iron Works is a dense industrial shipyard complex covering around 60 acres on the Kennebek River, and is the largest private employer in the state of Maine. The yard has been producing vessels for the Navy for over 100 years. Recent projects at the shipyard include a series of large AEGIS-...
When it was decommissioned in 1993, this major Navy shipyard had almost 20,000 workers. The facility is being turned over to the city, once the Navy has fully evacuated and remediated the site. New tenants are being sought.The complex is a heavily industrialized 1,500 acres with over four and a...
The Fore River Shipyard, south of Boston, is a major shipyard that has been relatively inactive for the past couple of decades, but is one of the last remaining heavy industry sites in the State. During World War II it was one of several yards around Boston building battleships for the Navy, and it...
General Dynamic's Electric Boat division operates a hull fabrication plant here, where large Navy vessels are assembled, mostly nuclear submarine hulls. The partially built vessels are barged to Electric Boat's main facility in Groton, Connecticut. The 169-acre shoreline facility is part of a...
A major offshore oil rig construction yard, located on the intracoastal waterway at Ingleside, across the bay from Corpus Christi. This is the larger of two yards in the area owned by the Gulf Island Fabrication company, based in Houma, Louisiana. The North Yard is a near Aransas Pass, three miles...
1,100-acre Navy industrial complex located on the coast of Mississippi in Gulfport. Home of the Atlantic Fleet's Seabees, which is the Navy's construction battalion, known for building roads and buildings in wartime, and engaging in emergency repairs following civil disasters, such as hurricanes....
Ingalls Shipyard is one of the largest shipbuilding facilities in the United States. With over 10,000 workers, the yard is the state's largest private employer. Navy destroyers, cruisers, nuclear submarines, and numerous other types of vessels are built at this 800-acre shipyard, more than a square...
Henry Kaiser built a shipyard on this farmland in Vancouver, Washington in 1942 to produce ships for the American Navy. During World War Two, the yard produced nearly a ship every week. Kaiser also operated yards in Portland, Oregon and Richmond, California. These three wartime shipyards produced...
This is a major oil rig construction yard, built on Corpus Christi Ship Bay in Ingleside in 2001 by Kiewitt Offshore. The yard is 400 acres, and has an unusually large crane, the Heavy Lifting Device, which is capable of lifting up to 13,000 tons. Kiewit is a large construction company that builds...
The structure of the shoreline of much of Sausalito today is the result of the Marinship yard, the Bechtel Corporation's massive industrial development of World War II. The company built the 210 acre yard in a few months, filling in tidal areas with soil from an adjacent hillside. Over the next...
The largest naval installation in the world, and by population the largest military base of any kind in the world. There are 109,000 active naval personnel stationed in the Norfolk area, and over 40,000 civilians work at the area's naval installations.
A major military shipyard with four miles of waterfront on the Delaware River, in south Philadelphia. Formerly called the Philadelphia Naval Station and the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, entities officially closed by BRAC in 1995. Portions of the complex are undergoing transfer to civilian uses as...
Like the town itself, the port of Richmond is a product of World War II and oil. Though the principal channel (the Santa Fe channel) began to be dredged in the 1920's, it wasn't until Henry Kaiser built four shipyards at the port during the war that the infrastructure was laid for the port as we...
Nuclear submarine maintenance and refueling base, located on a heavily industrialized 272-acre island off Kittery, Maine, across the Piscataqua River from Portsmouth, NH. The base is the nation's oldest public shipyard, nearly 200 years old, and has around 4,100 employees.
Puget Sound Naval Shipyard began life in 1891, and is now the largest active shipyard on the West Coast. This densely built industrial area next to the town of Bremerton employs over 15,000 people. Though ships are rarely built here now, it is one of the Navy's busiest repair yards, updating and...
San Francisco Drydock is the largest commercial shipyard in San Francisco. It occupies the facilities from the Bethlehem Steel Company and the Union Iron Works. It is owned by the United States Marine Repair Company, which owns five major shipyards around the country. This industrial area is the...
The Todd Pacific Shipyard in Seattle's port has been a major presence since 1916. The 46 acre yard, located on Harbor Island ("the largest man-made island in America") has three large drydocks, including the second largest floating drydock on the West Coast, which can accommodate ships up to 800...