This October 2015 handout photo provided by the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, shows the shipyard base in Kittery. Most Navy commanders don’t have to run everything by a historic preservation committee but that’s just one of the challenges Capt. David Hunt faces he continues the work of updating the nation’s oldest continuously operated public shipyard. KITTERY […]
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Cianbro gets $23 million contract at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
KITTERY (AP) — A Maine-based construction firm has been awarded a $23 million contract from the U.S. Navy to improve a dry dock at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. The Portland Press Herald reports Maine’s two U.S. Senators, Republican Sen. Susan Collins and Independent Sen. Angus King announced Tuesday that Pittsfield-based Cianbro Corp. will make the […]
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Portsmouth Naval Shipyard pays $274.2 million to Maine workers
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — A group supporting the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard has released a report that calculates its economic impact to be nearly $733 million for 2015. The calculation by the Seacoast Shipyard Association includes a civilian payroll of $482 million and a military payroll of $42.6 million. The Portsmouth Herald reports of the civilian amount, […]
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Shipyard worker who torched submarine appeals sentence
KITTERY — The New Hampshire man who pleaded guilty to setting fire to a nuclear-powered submarine but now says he doesn’t think he committed the crime has requested more time to respond to a magistrate’s recommendation that his appeal be dismissed. A federal magistrate a month ago rejected Casey James Fury’s claim of ineffective counsel leading […]
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Nuclear sub USS Annapolis arrives at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
KITTERY (AP) — The nuclear-powered attack submarine USS Annapolis is in Kittery for regular maintenance work and upgrades. The submarine and her crew of 16 officers and 122 enlisted personnel arrived at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery this weekend. Annapolis was commissioned in 1992 and its home port is Groton, Conn. The vessel is […]
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Portsmouth Naval Shipyard plans to hire 715 workers
KITTERY — Portsmouth Naval Shipyard has begun hiring more than 700 workers to deal with an increase in work as the Navy aims to reduce maintenance delays on its fleet of nuclear submarines, officials said Thursday. The hiring of 715 workers will boost the shipyard workforce from 4,700 to 5,200 civilian employees, once attrition is factored […]
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Defense bill includes funding for shipyard, Pease
CONCORD, N.H. — New Hampshire Sens. Kelly Ayotte and Jeanne Shaheen say the annual defense bill has provisions that authorize funding for the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard and the Pease Air National Guard Base. The senators, both members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, say the bill authorizes the procurement of two Virginia Class submarines and […]
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U.S. Navy report cites complacency in Kittery sub fire
PORTLAND — A fire that crippled a nuclear submarine at a shipyard showed that the Navy had become complacent about safety in industrial settings and put too much faith in land-based firefighters who had never trained to battle a blaze aboard a submarine, Navy investigators concluded. The investigators also said there was confusion at the […]
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Navy says there is interest in Portsmouth Naval Shipyard prison redevelopment
KITTERY, Maine (AP) — The Navy says it has received more than one proposal in its latest attempt to enlist the private sector to redevelop the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard’s shuttered prison. It isn’t saying much else, though, because the proposals are cloaked in secrecy. Tom Kreidel, spokesman for the Naval Facilities Engineering Command in Virginia, […]
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Biden promises U.S. will chase terrorists to the ‘gates of hell’
KITTERY — Vice President Joe Biden addressed a crowd of more than 1,000 at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery on Wednesday morning, throwing political star power behind a slate of Democratic candidates in both Maine and New Hampshire. Biden was accompanied on the stage by Maine gubernatorial candidate Mike Michaud and 1st District U.S. Rep. Chellie […]