FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Maine ~ 27 JAN 2026

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[laurenmarlowe]

 

 

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Road Trip: Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Maine

The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, often called the Portsmouth Navy Yard, is a United States Navy shipyard located in Kittery on the southern boundary of Maine near the city of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. PNS is tasked with the overhaul, repair, and modernization of US Navy submarines.

Though PNS is nominally a public shipyard, several corporations (e.g., Delphinius Engineering of Eddystone, PA; Oceaneering International of Chesapeake, VA; Orbis Sibro of Mount Pleasant, SC; and Q.E.D. Systems Inc. of Virginia Beach, VA) carry out the submarine maintenance and upgrades there.

The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard was established on June 12, 1800 during the administration of President John Adams, and is the U.S. Navy's oldest continuously operating shipyard. It sits on a cluster of conjoined islands called Seavey's Island in the Piscataqua River, whose swift tidal current prevents ice from blocking navigation to the Atlantic Ocean.

The shipyard earned the Meritorious Unit Commendation in 2005. The MUC recognized the shipyard for meritorious service from September 11, 2001 to August 30, 2004. Portsmouth Naval Shipyard accomplishments achieved during that period included completion of six major submarine availabilities early, exceeding Net Operation Results financial goals, reducing injuries by more than 50 percent, and exceeding the Secretary of Defense's Fiscal Year 2006 Stretch Goal for lost workday compensation rates two years early.

In addition to the Navy presence, the United States Army New England Recruiting Battalion relocated to PNSY in June 2010 from the closed Brunswick Naval Air Station. The United States Coast Guard uses the Portsmouth Navy Yard as the home port for the medium-endurance cutters Reliance, Tahoma, and Campbell.

PNS is undergoing substantial construction and infrastructure upgrades. In fiscal 2020, Navy contracts were issued to renovate the communications building, build a super flood basin and extend crane rails in Dry Dock 1, upgrade crane rails in Dry Dock 2, renovate Building 2, and implement sundry waterfront projects.

The summer of 2021 saw an uptick in construction contracts issued for Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, including purchase and installation of three 12,000-gallon-per-minute dewatering pumps for the Dry Dock 1 extension, ongoing construction of the Dry Dock 2 complex, commencement of construction on the Virginia-class submarine waterfront support facility (Building 178), and a $1.73 billion contract for building a dry dock for maintenance and upgrade of Virginia-class submarines.

Learn More About Portsmouth Naval Shipyard HERE!!

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[PROCON]

WOO-HOO, it's Road Trip time again, thanks Lauren!

[radu]

Greetings to all at the Canteen!

To all our military men and women, past and present,

[radu]

Howdy, lauren. *HUGZ*

How did you fare with the storm over the weekend? Get through it all in good shape?

[laurenmarlowe]

Howdy PROCON, great to see ya!

[luvie]

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[laurenmarlowe]

Hi radu!

*HUGS*

It’s good to see you this evening, and hope you are doing okay after the weekend.

Well, yes and no, but won’t complain much. We did have record snow here. I did work Friday and Saturday night at rodeo stuff but it was pretty safe until Sunday morning, and I did not have far to go.

Now the pipes are frozen so no water, so no cleaning up, LOL!

Hopefully it will all work out by tomorrow afternoon.

[laurenmarlowe]

Howdy and thank you luvie!

*HUGS*

[luvie]

Hi, lauren! You’re very welcome. Hope you’ve been able to stay safe and warm.

We had some bitter cold here, but it’ll be warming up quite a bit by tomorrow.

[laurenmarlowe]

Safe and warm, yes thank you!

Hopefully everything will melt here tomorrow with a bit of sunshine!

[SkyDancer]

~ Evening All! ~

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~ Welcome To My World ~

I’m Down There Somewhere

[radu]

Doing well, surprisingly. Our county was spared by a flukey hit of warm air that came up from AL and it saved us big time. We had very little ice and what we did have is gone now.

Just c-c-c-c-c-cold!! And will be for another week.

Glad you got snow rather than ice. It’s a pain to deal with but a LOT better than ice.

The frozen water pipes are a YIKES! I hope none of them burst! Good luck with them!

[radu]

Howdy, luvie.

Ready for your warm-up tomorrow? I’m jealous!

[luvie]

I hope you get sunshine, too. Hope it’s warmer for you tomorrow, too.

We had sunshine today, and a lot of it melted. Of course, it’ll probably re-freeze tonight. Luckily, I have no place to be.

[luvie]

Good evening, Janey! Have you been grounded for the weekend? How much snow there?

[luvie]

Hey there, radu!

I sure am ready. It got all the way up to 32 this afternoon, but of course it’s dropping fast now.

Looks like you have our yesterday’s weather today. I hope it stayed dry so you don’t lose tree limbs. Sfay warm!

[luvie]

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[radu]

Your kitties will be VERY happy for the warm-up tomorrow.

We’re supposed to reach 40s next week but have a lot of cold to get through first.

I woke up to a white farm and there we re snow showers on and off all day, with sunshine between the showers. By sunset, most of the snow was melted in the yard. The wind and sunshine had melted the ice from yesterday by noon.
It was just bitter cold and the wind made it worse. It also made the house chilly because there are still little air leaks I can’t find. It’s warmed up in here now because the wind FINALLY stopped.

[PROCON]

Good grief, it’s just more AI garbage.

[SkyDancer]

Good evening Luvie ... here in the great PNW, it’s mostly cold, foggy at times and rain due sometime this week. No snow! Go Hawks!!