Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
shipyard, Kittery, Maine, United States
Learn about this topic in these articles:
history of Kittery
- In Kittery
The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (1800), which from the mid-1950s to 1971 built nuclear submarines and now overhauls and repairs them, is in Kittery. The Treaty of Portsmouth (1905), ending the Russo-Japanese War, was signed there. Nearby in South Berwick is the birthplace of novelist Sarah Orne…
Read More