The shipyard was about to hire 600 employees when the freeze took effect. Though naval shipyards were spared from furloughs that soon will take effect across the Department of Defense, Puget Sound ...

The Navy is investing billions of dollars into the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, the largest of its four public shipyards with a workforce of 15,000. The crane's removal is part of that effort.

Puget Sound Naval Shipyard was established in 1891. In World War I, it built seven submarines, 25 sub chasers, seven oceangoing tugs, two minesweepers and two ammunition ships, along with 1,700 ...