Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, often called the Portsmouth Navy Yard, is a United States Navy shipyard on Seavey's Island in Kittery, Maine, bordering Portsmouth, New Hampshire.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Military installation
- Description: United States Navy shipyard in Kittery, Maine
- Also known as: “Kittery Navy Yard”, “Portsmouth Naval Base”, “Portsmouth Navy Yard”, and “United States Naval Base (Portsmouth, N.H.)”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Rice Public Library and Pierce Island.
Rice Public Library
Library
The Rice Public Library is the public library of Kittery, Maine. It is located at 8 Wentworth Street in the central Kittery Foreside village, in an architecturally distinguished Romanesque Revival building built in 1889 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, with a large annex just across the street at 2 Walker Street. Rice Public Library is situated 2,500 feet northwest of Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.
Pierce Island
Islet
Peirce Island is a historic 27-acre island owned by the city of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and is connected to adjacent outlying Four Tree Island. It is connected to the mainland by the Peirce Island bridge.
Robert William Traip Academy
School
Robert William Traip Academy is a public high school located in Kittery, Maine. It serves the towns of Kittery and Kittery Point, Maine. It is adjacent to Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. The principal is Jane Durgin, as of July 1, 2023. Robert William Traip Academy is situated 2,300 feet north of Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kittery and Portsmouth.
Kittery
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Kittery is a small town in Maine, directly across from the New Hampshire border, that features a number of outlet stores.
Portsmouth
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Portsmouth is a city in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States. At the 2020 census it had a population of 21,956. A historic seaport and popular summer tourist destination on the Piscataqua River bordering the state of Maine, Portsmouth was formerly the home of the Strategic Air Command's Pease Air Force Base, since converted to Portsmouth International Airport at Pease.
Newcastle
Village
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New Castle is a town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 1,000 at the 2020 census. It is the easternmost town in New Hampshire and the smallest by area, and it is the only town in the state located entirely on islands.
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
- Category: shipyard
- Location: Town of Kittery, York County, Maine, New England, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Ukrainian—“Portsmouth Naval Shipyard” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Portsmouth Naval Shipyard”
- Chinese: “普利茅斯海軍造船廠”
- Chinese: “朴茨茅斯海军基地”
- Chinese: “朴茨茅斯海军造船厂”
- Chinese: “樸次茅夫海軍船廠”
- Chinese: “樸次茅斯海軍船場”
- Chinese: “樸次茅斯海軍造船廠”
- Chinese: “樸茨茅斯海軍造船廠”
- French: “Portsmouth Naval Shipyard”
- German: “Portsmouth Naval Shipyard”
- German: “Portsmouth Navy Yard”
- Japanese: “ポーツマス海軍工廠”
- Japanese: “ポーツマス海軍造船所”
- Korean: “포츠머스 해군 조선소”
- Malay: “Limbungan Tentera Laut Portsmouth”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Portsmouth Naval Shipyard”
- Polish: “Portsmouth Naval Shipyard”
- Polish: “Portsmouth Navy Yard”
- Russian: “Portsmouth NSY”
- Russian: “Портсмут”
- Slovenian: “Kittery Navy Yard”
- Slovenian: “Portsmouth Naval Shipyard”
- Spanish: “Astillero Naval de Portsmouth”
- Spanish: “Portsmouth Naval Shipyard”
- Ukrainian: “Portsmouth Naval Shipyard”
- Ukrainian: “Портсмутська військово-морська верф”
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Localities in the Area
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