Photo by Wendy M Hallmark | Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility | 07.19.2021
Steel pieces, ship parts and other material are laid out around Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility's Dry Dock 3 as part of the shipyard's recycling program. This program is lead by Code 350, Inactive Fleet, Recycle and Reactor Compartment Disposal. (U.S. Navy photo by Wendy Hallmark)...
Photo by Wendy M Hallmark | Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility | 07.01.2021
Riggers from from Code 740 at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility unhook a hull section from ex-USS Minneapolis-St. Paul., setting it dockside for eventual demilitarization and disposal. Recycling and disposal requires the combined efforts of nearly every shop on the shipyard. (U.S. Navy photo by Wendy Hallmark)...
Photo by Wendy M Hallmark | Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility | 07.01.2021
Ryan Henschel and Nicole Daniels, riggers, Code 740, at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility, work together to unhook a side piece hull section off the ex-USS Minneapolis-St. Paul during its recycling and disposal process. Disposal projects can take anywhere from 9 to 11.5 months, requiring around 488,000 resource hours. (U.S. Navy photo by Wendy Hallmark)...
Photo by Wendy M Hallmark | Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility | 07.01.2021
Ryan Henschel, rigger, Code 740, Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility, steers a side piece hull section from the ex-USS Minneapolis-St. Paul toward its laydown area at Dry Dock 3, as part of the ship recycling program. Together, shops and codes across the shipyard, cut up and recycle approximately 6.900 tons of material during a project. (U.S. Navy photo by Wendy......
Photo by Wendy M Hallmark | Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility | 07.01.2021
A sail is one of the many cut up pieces from decommissioned submarines ex-USS Augusta and ex-USS Minneapolis-St. Paul laid out in Dry Dock 3 at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility. Pieces are stacked and spread out in laydown areas, waiting to be loaded onto railcars and shipped to their final destinations. (U.S. Navy photo by Wendy Hallmark)...
