AsbestosAsbestos Industry
Job SitesShipyards
Mayport Naval Station
Naval Station Mayport (NSM) is located in Jacksonville, Florida. The Mayport basin is home to some two dozen ships at present, including AEGIS guided-missile cruisers, destroyers and guided-missile frigates. The aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy has recently moved to Mayport, too. There is also an air facility which conducts more than 135,000 flight operations each year. This came about with the consolidation of operations between Naval Station Mayport and the Naval Air Station Mayport in 1992. More than 14,000 active-duty personnel are stationed at NSM.
The station's harbor can accommodate up to 34 fleet units, including two aircraft carriers. Some of the more than 23 ships which berth at Mayport include: Ticonderoga-class cruisers, Arleigh Burke and Spruance-class destroyers and Oliver Hazard Perry-class guided-missile frigates.
In 1990 the United States Congress directed the Secretary of Defense to submit a plan for upgrading Mayport, in order that it could be able to service nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and serve as a home for them.
Naval Station Mayport is located near the Port of Jacksonville on the St. Johns River. The river is the approach to Jacksonville, FL. Berths consist of the two primary carrier piers (C1 and C2), another carrier berth at dolphins (C3), and several other piers for smaller vessels. There are numerous locations for repairs nearby, depending on the size of the ship and degree of repair.
Locations include:
- Jacksonville Shipyards, Inc. (JSI) commercial yard - in the lower harbor about 22 miles upriver.
- JSI Bellinger Shipyard Division - off the St. Johns River south along the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway.
- Atlantic Marine, Inc. - on the Intracoastal Waterway at the north side of the main channel of the St. Johns River.
- Atlantic Dry Dock - on the Intracoastal Waterway north at St. George Island, next to Atlantic Marine, Inc.
The US Naval Air Station Jacksonville has grown over the years into the Navy's third largest complex, right behind San Diego and Norfolk. Mayport was commissioned in December 1942, at the onset of the second World War, and has quadrupled its size since.
Sources:
- Mayport Naval Station - Jacksonville, Florida
