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	Mesothelioma SOS - Asbestos Exposure at Puget Sound Shipyard
		Many questioned why a Navy Yard was needed on the west coast but threats from Japan to take over the Philippines and other Pacific islands fueled the desire to have such a facility located near the Pacific Ocean.
		Employment at Puget Sound fell after the war and rose again during the Korean conflict.
		During the building and repair of ships at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, both civilian and military employees were often exposed to high levels of asbestos fibers.
	www.mesotheliomasos.com /jobsitesPugetsound.php (502 words)

	Puget Sound Naval Shipyard
		Puget Sound Naval Shipyard (PSNS) covers 179 acres of property bordered on the south by Sinclair Inlet[?], on the west by Naval Station Bremerton[?], and on the north and east perimeters by the city of Bremerton, Washington.
		Puget Sound Naval Shipyard provides the United States Navy with maintenance, modernization, and technical and logistics support.
		Puget Sound Naval Shipyard was established in 1891 as a Naval Station and was designated Navy Yard Puget Sound in 1901.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pu/Puget_Sound_Navy_Yard.html (307 words)

	Mesothelioma SOS - Asbestos Exposure at Shipyards
		Along with five additional locations on the Northeastern coast of the U.S., the Charlestown (Boston) Navy Yard was established at the turn of the 19th century by mandate from the Secretary of the Navy...
		Situated on the banks of the Anacostia River on land that was set aside by George Washington for federal use, the Washington Navy Yard is the U.S. Navy’s oldest shore establishment.
		The yard is situated on the Eastern Branch of the Elizabeth River, convenient to all port facilities and terminals in the Port of Hampton Roads.
	www.mesotheliomasos.com /jobsitesShipyards.php (3123 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Puget Sound Naval Shipyard
		Puget Sound Naval Shipyard (PSNS) is a United States Navy shipyard covering 179 acres (0.7 km²) of property bordered on the south by Sinclair Inlet, on the west by the Bremerton Annex of Naval Base Kitsap, and on the north and east by the city of Bremerton, Washington.
		It is the Pacific Northwest's largest naval shore facility and one of Washington state's largest industrial installations.
		PSNS provides the Navy with maintenance, modernization, and technical and logistics support.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Puget_Sound_Navy_Yard (476 words)

	HistoryLink Essay:Puget Sound Naval Shipyard
		Puget Sound Naval Shipyard also engaged in an extensive program of modernizing aircraft carriers, including the conversion of conventional flight decks to the angled decks used by the new jet aircraft.
		Wyckoff had been sent to Hot Springs, Arkansas to recuperate from a debilitating illness, the Navy’s new Chief of the Bureau of Docks and Yards decided Puget Sound was a poor location for a shipyard and wanted it moved, and the country slipped into a mild economic depression.
		Because the Navy Yard Puget Sound was not strategically located to serve as a repair facility for a war in the Atlantic Ocean, the navy yard’s mission was changed in 1916 from overhaul and repair work to the construction of new warships.
	www.historylink.org /essays/printer_friendly/index.cfm?file_id=5579 (3347 words)

	[www.thesunlink.com] The SUN newspaper of Bremerton, Wash.
		When the Puget Sound Navy Yard outbid other Navy yards and several private shipbuilders in 1928 to win the USS Louisville contract, it was taking a huge risk.
		PSNY completed the light cruiser for $7.68 million — $600,000 less than its bid, essentially saving the Navy more than $2.5 million.
		PSNY was awarded contracts to build the USS Astoria, completed in 1933, and on Sept. 29, 1931, received a $5 million destroyer contract.
	www.westsoundjobfinder.com /packages/millennium/story14.html (339 words)

	Ship's History
		She was decommissioned in the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, on 12 March 1919 and sold for scrapping 8 September 1919.
		After two years of routine duty she was decommissioned in Philadelphia Navy Yard until re-activation in 1940 as a seaplane tender-destroyer with the hull number AVD 5.
		The third GOLDSBOROUGH DDG 20, was built by the Puget Sound Bridge and Drydock Company in Seattle, Washington, and was commissioned at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington on 9 November 1963, Captain Charles D. Allen Jr., in command.
	www.ussgoldsborough.com /History.htm (1320 words)

	USS Wisconsin BB-9
		While in the Puget Sound Navy Yard at Bremerton, 12 August, she became flagship of Rear Admiral Silas Casey, commanding the Pacific Squadron.
		She arrived at San Francisco 18 October and was decommissioned in the Puget Sound Navy yard 15 November 1906.
		She shifted to the Philadelphia Navy yard 1 April 1912 and was recommissioned there 15 April 1915.
	www.usswisconsin.org /BB-9/bb-9.htm (996 words)

	Puget Sound Naval Shipyard (NSY)
		In addition to in-yard work, the shipyard has a very active program of providing repair teams to accomplish on-site repair work on a variety of naval ships at their home port locations.
		Puget Sound Naval Shipyard has been recognized as the Navy's best installation worldwide and is the recipient of the 1991 Commander-in-Chief's Installation Excellence Award.
		In 1994 Puget Sound NSY had a civilian work force of 10,588 and a military work force of 330.
	www.fas.org /man/company/shipyard/puget_sound.htm (492 words)

	RAL - Puget Sound Naval Shipyard Ticonderoga War Report of Action, 21 January, 1945
		The condition of the ship at the time of the attack and the measures taken to maintain military efficiency and seaworthiness are described in the ship's report, reference (a).
		In reference (g) the Yard recommended replacement of arches and metal joiner doors with quick acting or structural doors between bulkheads 79 and 131 on the Second Deck.
		The sound powered communication unaffected by damage was sufficient to pass all orders necessary for the completion of damage control measures.
	www.researcheratlarge.com /Ships/CV14/Kamikaze/PSNSWarReport.html (5178 words)

	Naval History USS Wisconsin BB-9
		Following repairs and alterations at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Wash., from 23 July to 14 October, Wisconsin sailed for the middle and southern reaches of the Pacific, reaching Honolulu, Hawaii, on 23 October.
		Reaching the Puget Sound Navy Yard five days before Christmas of 1902, Wisconsin then underwent repairs and alterations until 13 May 1903, when she sailed for the Asiatic Station.
		Wisconsin discharged her duties as a midshipman's training ship into 1917 and was moored at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 6 April of that year, when she received word that the United States had declared war on Germany.
	www.multied.com /Navy/battle/Wisconsin.html (2150 words)

	Puget Sound Naval Shipyard History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Puget Sound Naval Shipyard was originally established in 1891 as a Naval Station and was designated Navy Yard Puget Sound in 1901.
		On May 15, 2003, Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and the Naval Intermediate Maintenance Facility, Pacific Northwest (located at Bangor, Bremerton and Everett, WA) consolidated into one maintenance activity - creating PSNS and IMF.
		It has one of the largest drydocks built by the Navy and is the only drydock in the world constructed parallel to the shoreline.
	www.psns.navy.mil /history.htm (666 words)

	U.S. Navy Battleships - USS Tennessee (BB 44)
		The fifth Tennessee was laid down on 14 May 1917 at the New York Navy Yard; launched on 30 April 1919; sponsored by Miss Helen Lenore Roberts, daughter of the governor of Tennessee; and commissioned on 3 June 1920, Capt. Richard H. Leigh in command.
		General quarters was sounded at 0400 on 14 June 1944 as the old battleships drew near to Saipan.
		She retained her battery of 10 40-millimeter quadruple antiaircraft mounts and 43 20- millimeter guns, but her main-battery directors received improved models of the Mark 8 radar, and the Mark 4 radars used with the 5-inch gun directors were replaced by the newer combination of paired Mark 12 and Mark 22 dual-purpose equipment.
	www.navy.mil /navydata/ships/battleships/tennessee/bb43-tenn.html (14218 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Her keel was laid down on 14 May 1917 at the New York Navy Yard.
		She was launched on 30 April 1919 sponsored by Miss Helen Lenore Roberts, daughter of Albert H. Roberts, the governor of Tennessee and commissioned on 3 June 1920 with Captain Richard H. Leigh in command.
		Undaunted, the ship's force, navy yard craftsmen, and manufacturers' representatives labored to eliminate the "teething troubles" in Tennessee's engineering system and enabled the battleship to depart New York on 26 February 1921 for standardization trials at Guantanamo Bay.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=USS_Tennessee_(BB-43) (2197 words)

	Destroyer History — Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, WA
		Destroyer History — Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, WA Puget Sound Navy Yard is located adjacent to Bremerton, Washington on an arm of Puget Sound.
		during World War I. By World War II, it had become the West Coast’s premier navy yard devoted to repair and modernization and the only one that could handle capital ships—it was here that five of the six surviving battleship survivors of Pearl Harbor were repaired and modernization.
		She and the yard’s remaining Fletchers were among the last 25 ships of the 175-ship class commissioned; the four low-bridge ships were the last four Fletchers commissioned; the last two in 1945, the only Fletchers that did not earn engagement stars during World War II.
	www.destroyerhistory.org /destroyers/pugetsoundny.html (274 words)

	USN Ships--USS Aroostook (AK-44) -- Views taken in 1941-1943
		At the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, 18 June 1941, while being dismantled in preparation for an abortive attempt to return her to active Navy service.
		Taken at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington.
		The ship was then in the early stages of an abortive attempt to return her to active Navy service after having been laid up since March 1931.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-a/ak44.htm (1083 words)

	Douglas Wray, Gig Harbor Real Estate Agent, Buyers Representative for Gig Harbor, Tacoma, Puget Sound, Western ...
		For many years, it was common for all Gig Harbor area real estate agents to only represent the Seller of a property in Puget Sound.
		The Mission of Naval Base Kitsap is to serve as the base for the Navy’s fleet throughout Puget Sound including surface ships and submarines in Bremerton and Bangor.
		Puget Sound properties, Pierce County, Kitsap County waterfront, Pacific Northwest, realtor, agent, sensitive, associate, horse, acreage, view, property.
	www.buyersrep.net (5616 words)

	Patty Jo Furst, Gig Harbor Real Estate Agent for Gig Harbor Homes For Sale, Tacoma, Puget Sound, Western Washington
		A quality military relocation specialist, patty can help military and navy families move or relocate to a new sub base in the Gig Harbor, Bremerton ship yard, Bangor sub base and Puget Sound area.
		Whether you are seeking an agent, broker, or a buyer agent, Patty Jo can find Gig Harbor developments, a Canterwood condo, Puget Sound waterfront properties, homes for sale in any part of Pierce County or Kitsap County, whether it be waterfront on the Kitsap Peninsula, or property for sale in the Pacific Northwest.
		Patty Jo Furst can sell you a Puget Sound waterfront cabin, a beachfront condo, Gig Harbor acreage, even for first time home buyers Washington real estate is becoming harder to find, however Patty Furst can find you any Washington waterfront homes for sale, and is a top agent in home buying.
	www.pattyjofurst.com (1773 words)

	USN Ships--USS Princeton (CVL-23)
		Following a quick overhaul at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Princeton helped in the conquest of the Marshall Islands in January and February 1944.
		Underway in the Delaware River, off the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, 28 March 1943.
		Off the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, 1 January 1944.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-p/cvl23.htm (787 words)

	American Defenders of Land, Sea & Sky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This vast concrete pit at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard is known as Drydock 4.
		It was one of two 1,000-foot long ship repair facilities constructed here around the beginning of World War II.
		By the end of the war, this famous shipyard had repaired, overhauled, and modernized 344 fighting ships of all types.
	www.cr.nps.gov /hps/pad/defenders/puget2.htm (110 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: USS St. Louis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Louis was specially outfitted with heavy drag lines in order to destroy undersea cable communications in the West Indies and to the mainland of South America.
		Louis was delivered to the Navy at New York to be wholly manned and operated by the Navy as a troop transport.
		Louis was recommissioned, in reserve, on 7 October 1911 at the Puget Sound Navy Yard.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/USS-St.-Louis (306 words)

	Working on Ships at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Washington - Exposure to Asbestos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A lot of questions arose as to why there was a need for larger Navy yards on the pacific coast.
		Since Puget Sound was not ideally located to serve as a repair base for a war in the North Atlantic, the yard was switched from mostly overhaul work to new construction.
		Dry Dock 5 had to be altered to accommodate the new super-carriers, but it was the contract in December of 1958 that brought the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard $32,645,000 to build a dry-dock 181 feet wide, 1,180 feet long, and 61 feet deep, one of the largest in the world.
	www.elslaw.com /jobsites_wa_pugetsound.htm (1141 words)

	USS Idaho (BB 42)
		She arrived at San Francisco on 31 January 1942 and operated on the west coast until October when she underwent an overhaul at Puget Sound Navy Yard.
		She departed the warzone for Puget Sound Navy Yard for another overhaul.
		Here she was refitted again between 22 October 1944 through 1 January 1945 and her 5in/25 cal dual purpose guns were removed and replaced with ten single enclosed 5in/38cal turrets.
	webpages.charter.net /wisconsinlegion-7thdistrict/USS_Idaho.htm (706 words)

	Tender_Wyoming
		Owens in command, Cheyenne was assigned to the Washington (state) Naval Militia in 1911 and operated in an "in commission, in reserve" status into 1913.
		The newly converted submarine tender operated in the Puget Sound region until 11 December, when she sailed for San Francisco.
		She attended a regatta at Astoria, Oreg., from 22 to 27 August and later took part in ceremonies at the "unveiling of monuments" at Griffin Bay, San Juan Islands and Roche Harbor before she entered the Puget sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Wash., on 22 October.
	www.submarinehistory.com /Tender_Wyoming.html (1144 words)

	BNY-shop-Com
		However, after 1940 wages in commerical shipbuilding began to overtake those in the navy yards and government shipbuilders then began to push for equality with the “prevailing” wages that the private companies and CIO and AFL unions were then negotiating.
		The Norfolk navy yard commandant told his fellow commandants that at his yard non-unionized workers were running for and being elected to the shop committees.
		In addition, he had received reports that the management at some navy yards was even harassing duly-elected shop delegates by means of such tactics as deducting the time spent at meetings from their efficiency rating for quantity of work.
	www.columbia.edu /~jrs9/BNY-shop-Com.html (11747 words)

	Puget Sound Naval Shipyard Recalls Contributions to Fleet During WWII (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Official U.S. Navy file photo of a Puget Sound Naval Shipyard worker welding the base of a system used for shipboard firefighting.
		Now, 61 years later the battleships have been decommissioned, but Puget Sound Naval Shipyard is still the choice destination for the Pacific Fleet.
		Puget Sound Naval Shipyard employees maintain this reputation by always doing their best to serve the needs of our nation's Navy and our Sailors.
	www.news.navy.mil /search/display.asp?story_id=4905 (817 words)

	NAVY GIFTS - LAPD Authors
		The United States Navy (USN) is the branch of the United States armed forces responsible for conducting naval operations around the globe.
		In the early stages of the American Revolutionary War, the establishment of an official navy was heavily discussed among the members of the Continental Congress.
		The United States would be without a navy for over a decade and the impetus to reestablish one came about not because of a threat from a sovereign country, but from pirates.
	www.lapdauthors.com /navy-gifts/navy_history.html (1774 words)

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