Puget Sound Naval Shipyard (Navy Yard Puget Sound)

Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility (PSNS & IMF) is a United States Navy shipyard at Bremerton, Washington, on Sinclair Inlet at the western side of Puget Sound. It provides maintenance, modernization, and technical and logistics support to fleet units, and is the largest naval shore facility in the Pacific Northwest and one of the largest industrial installations in Washington state. The yard occupies 179 acres, bordered to the west by the Bremerton Annex of Naval Base Kitsap and to the north and east by the city of Bremerton. With about 15,000 personnel assigned, it is the largest of the US public shipyards by workforce. The facility has been in continuous use since 1891 and has also been known as Navy Yard Puget Sound, Bremerton Navy Yard, and the Bremerton Naval Complex.

Roughly a quarter of the yard's workload is inactivation, reactor compartment disposal, and recycling of nuclear-powered ships under the Ship-Submarine Recycling Program, authorised by the Navy in 1990. PSNS is the only US facility certified to recycle nuclear-powered vessels and has scrapped more than 125 submarines as well as cruisers. The shipyard also holds a portion of the US Navy reserve fleet of inactive vessels; the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk (CV-63) was laid up there until its removal for scrapping in May 2022.

Yard facilities include graving docks capable of docking aircraft carriers and submarines, waterfront berthing, portal gantry cranes, a pattern shop and a 1,000-ton forging press. The most conspicuous structure is the hammerhead crane of 1933, 250 feet tall and 80 feet wide, with a lifting capacity of 250 tons.

The installation was established in 1891 as a naval station and redesignated Navy Yard Puget Sound in 1901, building subchasers, submarines, minesweepers, tugs and ammunition ships during the First World War and cruisers and destroyers through the 1930s and Second World War, when its principal task became battle-damage repair. Renamed Puget Sound Naval Shipyard after 1945, it carried out carrier modernisation including angled-deck conversions, ship activations during the Korean War, and guided missile frigate construction in the late 1950s; Sculpin (SSN-590) became the first nuclear submarine overhauled there in 1965. The shipyard and the co-located intermediate maintenance facility were consolidated as PSNS & IMF on 15 May 2003.