Philadelphia Navy Yard (former) (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

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Originally "League Island Navy Yard" this facility built many ships including the Battleships New Jersey (BB-62) and Wisconsin (BB-64). Closed in 1995, although mothballed ships are stored here.

For a full list of ships built here, please see:
www.shipbuildinghistory.com/history/shipyards/3public/i...
www.navyyard.org/

Today serves as the Philadelphia Naval Station

Based at the former Philadelphia Navy Yard, the formal designation is the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division - Ships Systems Engineering Station (Philadelphia) (NSWCCD-SSES)

Order of Battle

Norfolk Naval Shipyard Detachment (NNSY-DET)
Naval Foundry and Propeller Center;

also certain waterfront facilities under the cognizance of the
Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility (NISMF);
Public Works Center San Francisco Detachment Philadelphia (PWC DET);
the Naval Bureau of Medicine (BUMED);
and the Naval Fleet and Industrial Supply Center (FISC).

The Navy employs approximately 2,500 civilians at this location

Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division
Philadelphia Naval Business Center
Phone: (215) 897-8439 - Fax: (301) 227-5576

www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/philadelphia_n...
www.dt.navy.mil/mac-res-eng/pro-pla/index.html
www.memach.com/nuhm/philadel.htm