Puget Sound Naval Shipyard Historic District, Bremerton

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Puget Sound Naval Shipyard Historic District location map

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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. ()

Coordinates: 47°33'32"N, 122°38'17"W

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West Bremerton (Puget Sound Naval Shipyard)Bremerton United States

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Puget Sound Naval Shipyard Historic District – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: USS Turner Joy, Port Orchard Marina, Whitey Domstad Park, Sidney Art Museum.

0.8 miNE
Museum battleship with public tours
USS Turner Joy, Bremerton
22 min walk • USS Turner Joy is one of 18 Forrest Sherman-class destroyers of the United States Navy. She was named for Admiral Charles Turner Joy USN. Commissioned in 1959, she spent her entire career in the Pacific.
1 miS
47°32'40"N • 122°38'13"W
Port Orchard Marina, Port Orchard
26 min walk • Sailing, Marina
1.3 miNE
47°34'14"N • 122°37'1"W
Whitey Domstad Park, Bremerton
33 min walk • Park
1.2 miS
47°32'28"N • 122°38'13"W
Sidney Art Museum, Port Orchard
32 min walk • Art museum, Museum
1.1 miNE
Bridge
Manette Bridge, Bremerton
30 min walk • The Manette Bridge was a steel truss bridge that spanned the Port Washington Narrows in Bremerton, Washington, USA. It connected the community of Manette, Washington to downtown Bremerton.
1.2 miS
47°32'31"N • 122°38'10"W
Kitsap Regional Library Port Orchard, Port Orchard
30 min walk • Library
0.5 miNW
Neighbourhood, Colonial revival architecture
Marine Reservation Historic District, Bremerton
12 min walk • The Marine Reservation Historic District is in the northwestern area of the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, just west of the Hospital Reservation Historic District. Beginning in 1911 it reached its maximum development, prior to World War II. The district included four standing buildings and a barracks, which has been demolished.
1.1 miN
Universities and schools
Olympic College, Bremerton
30 min walk • Olympic College is a public community college in Bremerton, Washington. It opened as Olympic Junior College on September 5, 1946. Olympic College serves Kitsap and Mason counties in Washington. The college's service area contains two major naval installations: Naval Base Kitsap and Naval Hospital Bremerton.