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October 18, 2017

Updating Portsmouth shipyard means working with 200-year-old buildings

  • Slate and copper roofs will have to be replaced with the same materials under historic preservation rules.
    • By DAVID SHARP
    Associated Press

    KITTERY, Maine — The nation's four public shipyards from Maine to Hawaii are each more than a century old and showing their age. The Government Accountability Office said in a report that all of them need substantial improvements to keep up on the repair and overhaul ships.

    At Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, the structures are so old that few of those improvements can move forward without taking into account historic preservation.


     
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