After months of dry dock work, the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt is back in the water at the naval shipyard in Bremerton.
The commander of the Puget Sound Naval shipyard said that every project is complex and comes with its own unique challenges. The Roosevelt team worked hard to get this done.
Crew galleys and berths are being upgraded. Anna Taylor, a spokeswoman for the shipyard, said there is a lot of work going on.
The flattop arrived in Sinclair inlet in July of 2021, the first visit to Puget Sound for the 1986-commissioned carrier.
Part of the work on the Roosevelt is to get it ready to launch and land the Navy's newest generation of jet, the F-35C Joint Strike Fighter, an upgrade undertaken for the first time in 2020.
The ship's self-defense and IT systems are being upgraded.
Mosman said that the entire availability up to this point has been a shining example of what can be accomplished when we work together.
One of only two docks in the Navy that can handle the 1,092-foot-long Nimitz class of ships has yet to be announced by the Navy.
The dock is going to get an upgrade. An engineering consultant found in 2016 that it needed $667 million in upgrades to be able to survive an earthquake. One of the Navy's plans is to create a second aircraft carrier capable dock at Puget Sound in order to dock the newest Ford class of carrier.
The article was first published on the Kitsap Sun.
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