Long Beach Naval Shipyard Puns

USS Missouri (BB-63) in dry dock, Long Beach Naval Shipyard, California, 1 February 1985 [2606x1718]

USS Missouri (BB-63) in dry dock, Long Beach Naval Shipyard, California, 1 February 1985

[2990 x 2010]USS New Jersey (BB-62) is visible behind the floating crane "Herman the German" (YD-171) at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard, circa 1982

USS New Jersey (BB-62) in a dry dock at Long Beach Naval Shipyard undergoing modernization and reactivation, February 5, 1982. [1978x3000]

USS New Jersey (BB-62) in a dry dock at Long Beach Naval Shipyard undergoing modernization and reactivation, February 5, 1982

My late grandmother, after being crowned "Miss Long Beach Naval Shipyard" in 1953. imgur.com/gJfU2RG

USS New Jersey (BB-62) is a dry dock at Long Beach Naval Shipyard undergoing modernization and reactivation, February 5, 1982. [1978x3000]

Ann Morell, Shipmate of the Month, aboard the USS New Jersey (BB-62) Iowa-class battleship at Long Beach Naval Shipyard. Long Beach, CA 8/30/1968 photo by Neil Leifer. [1325x890]

USS New Jersey (BB-62) in a dry dock at Long Beach Naval Shipyard undergoing modernization and reactivation, February 5, 1982

AFDB-4 (Auxiliary Floating Dock, Big). YD-171 at Long Beach Naval Shipyard lifting another section of drydock superstructure onto AFDB-4, circa 1953. [6000 × 4800]

[3000 x 2010]USS Missouri (BB-63) in dry dock during her modernization at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard, 1985 imgur.com/cPA6fNo

SPG-49 and SPW-2 radars on USS Oklahoma City (CLG-5), Long Beach Naval Shipyard, 19 October 1963 [3136×3376]

USS Petrof Bay (CVE-80), USS Mustin (DD-413) and multiple Infantry Landing Craft in drydock at Long Beach Naval Shipyard, Summer 1945 [2870×3551]

Five Essex-class aircraft carriers at Long Beach Naval Shipyard, California, 2 August 1966. Shown are USS Bennington (CVS-20), USS Bon Homme Richard (CVA-31), USS Yorktown (CVS-10), helicopter carrier USS Valley Forge (LPH-8, ex CV-45), and USS Hornet (CVS-12). [2000 x 1588]

ʕ •́؈•̀ ₎ Herman the German @ Long Beach Naval Shipyard 1957 [784×803px]

USS Rexburg (EPCE[R]-855) and USS Marysville (EPCE[R]-857) share the drydock at Long Beach Naval Shipyard with the USS Stone County (LST-1141) in April 1969. [1500x1183]

A stern view of USS Missouri (bb-63) januari 1 1990 at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard.[2100 × 1535]

A view of the support blocks positioned in Dry Dock No. 1 for USS Missouri (BB-63) prior to her undergoing modernization at the Naval Shipyard Long Beach, 7 August 1984. [2000 × 1600]

Five Essex-class aircraft carriers at Long Beach Naval Shipyard, California, 2 August 1966. Shown are USS Bennington (CVS-20), USS Bon Homme Richard (CVA-31), USS Yorktown (CVS-10), helicopter carrier USS Valley Forge (LPH-8, ex CV-45), and USS Hornet (CVS-12). [2000 x 1588]

USS Petrof Bay (CVE-80), USS Mustin (DD-413) and multiple Infantry landing craft in drydock at Long Beach Naval Shipyard, June-August 1945 [4591×5681]

USS Ranger, CV-61, USS Essex, LHD-2, left, USS Tarawa, LHA-1, and a few unidentified ships (2 Spruance, an FFG-7, etc) at Long Beach Naval Shipyard, 1993 [2850x1850]

USS New Jersey (BB-62) being towed from the Puget Sound Intermediate Maintenance Facility to Long Beach Naval Shipyard for reactivation, July 1981[2925x1957]

Assisted by the tug USS Coatopa (YTB 382), USS Long Beach (CGN 9) is maneuvered in Dry Dock 3 at the South Boston Annex of Boston Naval Shipyard.[579 × 716]

USS Evans (DE-1023). Ship's portrait taken off Point Loma in 1962 shortly after leaving the Long Beach Naval Shipyard. During her yard period, the after 3" gun mount was removed and the DASH deck was added without a DASH Hanger. [1000 × 818]

TIL from space, the light pollution over long beach naval shipyard exceeds any other area of LA, including hollywood and LAX exceptionmag.com/468/9-as…

Stern view USS New Jersey (BB-62) while in drydock undergoing refitting for reactivation. Naval Shipyard, Long Beach, CA. Feb 1982. [2840 × 1910]

[Warship] A stern view of USS Missouri (bb-63) januari 1 1990 at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard.[2100 × 1535]

Workboat Wednesday! Yard Floating Crane 171, more commonly known as "Herman the German", lends a fraction of her 350 ton lift capacity to raise a caisson aboard Floating Drydock AFDB-4 at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard in 1953. [6000x4800]

Drydock photo of the clipper bow on USS New Jersey (BB-62) during her 1981-82 recom overhaul at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard. [1886x2865]

USS New Jersey (BB-62) being towed from the Puget Sound Intermediate Maintenance Facility to Long Beach Naval Shipyard for reactivation, July 1981

[Warship] USS Evans (DE-1023). Ship's portrait taken off Point Loma in 1962 shortly after leaving the Long Beach Naval Shipyard. During her yard period, the after 3" gun mount was removed and the DASH deck was added without a DASH Hanger. [1000 × 818]

[4240 x 2832] USS Theodore Roosevelt undergoing a long refit at Dry Dock 6 of Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, with decommissioned vessels in the dark, September 2021.

USS Ohio (SSGN-726) in Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, 14 August 2003 [2905x1755]

Diablo (AGSS-479), 1964 in Long Island Sound after conversion to Fleet Snorkel at Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. [1200 x 876]

USS Ohio (SSGN-726) in Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, 14 August 2003 [2905x1755]

USS Ohio (SSGN-726) in Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, 14 August 2003 [2905x1755]

Oregon-class USS Rochester (CA-124) assisted by tug USS Awatobi (YTB-264) as she departs Mare Island Naval Shipyard, 20 Sept 1953. USS Dekaury (YTB-178) is at left. Rochester’s fitted with 3/50 twin automatic gun mounts, replacing the 40mm guns carried from ‘46 to ‘53. [5672×4197]

USS New Jersey BB-62 "Big J" Undergoing her reactivation at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard for Vietnam War 1967. [1647x2112]

Turkmen-class corvette of the Turkmen Naval Forces. Made by Turkish Gulhan & Dearsan shipyards, she is the first ship to carry the Gokdeniz CIWS. [Album] reddit.com/gallery/rxhkho

Kapitän zur See Hans-Jürgen Reinicke, former commander of the Third Reich Kriegsmarine heavy cruiser ‘Prinz Eugen’, alongside U.S. Navy Captain A.H. Graubart, at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, February 1946, when the ship was awarded to the USA.

Australia’s First Arafura Class Offshore Patrol Vessel, NUSHIP Arafura, at Osborne Naval Shipyard in South Australia. (5427 x 2612)

The USS Oklahoma City (SSN-723) has just made its last voyage. Like all U.S. Navy nuclear-powered subs, it will be decommissioned and recycled at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard.

7.5 inches tall, 5” wide, 4” diameter, heavy, cast iron/brass/bronze, weighs about 7 pounds. Was found in a shipyard in Philadelphia, may be naval related. Lion head on one side? reddit.com/gallery/rvlxtk