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 dorian
   
Location: Daytona Beach, FL
Gender: Male
 |  |  | Portsmouth Naval
< on 4/15/2008 9:37 AM >
|  | | | I caught a newspaper article printed in today's paper that the Naval Prison is up for lease again. It's one of our coast's holy grails, and I don't think anyone here's done it yet. Unless there's an unsung leet master who's being modest about it.
My curiosity was piqued, so a Seabee friend and I headed to the coast today. She and I split up and she headed to the shipyard to do some poking around with her clearance and I headed to New Castle to do some recon from across the shipyard...
From the coastal side, security looks a bit lax, at least between the water and the building itself. But the water was swarming with coast guard ships, and I ran across a station in New Castle itself.
When she returned she let me know that from what she could tell, getting in from the shipyard side would be quite the feat but that with some business credentials one could get permission to tour some parts of the facility as a 'prospective renter'.
Anyone else taken a look recently and considered a shot at it? I wanted to spend some more time but it seemed like some people in town thought I looked a little suspicious with a camera snapping shots at the Naval Yard. We headed back to Portsmouth and grabbed a couple of brews and talked it over.
As a sign of hope, the paper article has a pretty vivid description of the interior and vandals and looters have had some success. So if the fools can do it..
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mANVIL
Gender: Male
| | Re: Portsmouth Naval
<Reply # 1 on 4/15/2008 12:17 PM >
| | | | Do you have a link to the article online?
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dorian
Location: Daytona Beach, FL
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Portsmouth Naval
<Reply # 2 on 4/15/2008 12:22 PM >
| | | | http://www.concord...140358/1043/NEWS01
Here you go, sorry. I should have posted it in the original. For any interested.
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Jeff!
Location: Boston, MA
Gender: Male
| | Re: Portsmouth Naval
<Reply # 3 on 4/15/2008 1:23 PM >
| | | | i'm driving up there tonight just because of the way they described the inside of that place.
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dorian
Location: Daytona Beach, FL
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Portsmouth Naval
<Reply # 4 on 4/15/2008 1:41 PM >
| | | | You very well might find me tooling around somewhere nearby, jeff. I'm considering heading back up and checking out a hunch I've got
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Caligula
Location: Long Island
Gender: Male
I'm a hipster who wrestled a bear,Once
| | |  | Re: Portsmouth Naval
<Reply # 5 on 4/15/2008 4:15 PM >
| | | | If it's been vandalized and scrappers can get in, It's do able..
CONservative governMENt
http://www.flickr....s/actofdepression/
“Global warming kills more people than 9/11 every week.” www.myspace.com/ttwg |
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Jeff!
Location: Boston, MA
Gender: Male
| | Re: Portsmouth Naval
<Reply # 6 on 4/15/2008 4:55 PM >
| | | | Posted by Act0fD3pression
If it's been vandalized and scrappers can get in, It's do able..
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they said it's been vandalized when they went to renovate in the 1990's, meaning it happened long before.
SO many locations are super sketchy after 9/11 that never were before. a nuclear power submarine station would be one of those places 
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Caligula
Location: Long Island
Gender: Male
I'm a hipster who wrestled a bear,Once
| | | | Re: Portsmouth Naval
<Reply # 7 on 4/15/2008 5:05 PM >
| | | | Ah, Didn't realized it happened years ago. Well, Personally it said the places was partially renovated. I'm not a huge fan of drop ceiling, Or whats left of em. But when you think about it, It is Portsmouth.
Psht, Nuclear sub bases are nothin, I do them shits once a week!
CONservative governMENt
http://www.flickr....s/actofdepression/
“Global warming kills more people than 9/11 every week.” www.myspace.com/ttwg |
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paragonUE
Location: upstate new york
Gender: Male
"I hope you have hobo stab insurance"
| | Re: Portsmouth Naval
<Reply # 8 on 4/17/2008 3:18 AM >
| | | | psshh, its cake, obviously, I mean look at that fence, it aint got nothin' on teh taunton f3nce
little known fact, if you shake the sprinkles at the bottom of a doughnut bag while exploring, youll actually be cought by cops faster |
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djspookman
Location: SW NH
Gender: Male
| | Re: Portsmouth Naval
<Reply # 9 on 7/3/2008 11:47 AM >
| | | | There are a TON of buildings at PNS that are abandoned, and most are pretty sweet. I worked there 8 years ago, but didn't have the chance to explore the old prison. Closest I got to it was driving by it so I could check out the Trident class sub (USS Michigan) coming down the channel to dock for some event. (that was pretty cool anyway)
One building I did frequent a lot was the old sub manufacturing building, as it was directly between the shop I worked in and the sub I was working on, so it made a nice shortcut thru it. Unfortunately I didn't take any pictures. The building is where they used to assemble the old subs and launch them into the river. It hasn't been used in 20 or so years though, as Portsmouth is not a sub manufacturing base anymore, just a service/refurbishing station. The building is an open warehouse type building with a ceiling height of about 50', wooden brick paved flooring, a few side rooms/offices, a bunch of leftover machinery, and pigeon poo everywhere. Pretty interesting...
This building is between Bailey Ave and West street in the linked map, going North-South.
[last edit 7/3/2008 11:56 AM by djspookman - edited 4 times]
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Becks
Gender: Female
| | Re: Portsmouth Naval
<Reply # 10 on 7/3/2008 11:54 AM >
| | | | as put by a good friend... if they have a way in so do we...
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djspookman
Location: SW NH
Gender: Male
| | Re: Portsmouth Naval
<Reply # 11 on 7/3/2008 11:58 AM >
| | | | Posted by murdermafia69
as put by a good friend... if they have a way in so do we...
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True, but being a nuclear sub base.. security is high, especially during refueling.. armed marines w/ shoot first, ask questions later orders.
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Live-Bait
| | Re: Portsmouth Naval
<Reply # 12 on 7/3/2008 12:41 PM >
| | | | take an inflatable raft and predawn. launch from portsmouth ave bridge. report back here when your done paddling.
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djspookman
Location: SW NH
Gender: Male
| | Re: Portsmouth Naval
<Reply # 13 on 7/3/2008 1:32 PM >
| | | | Posted by Live-Bait
take an inflatable raft and predawn. launch from portsmouth ave bridge. report back here when your done paddling.
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yikes!! the currents in the Piscataqua river will rip you out to sea in no time...
djspk
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dorian
Location: Daytona Beach, FL
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Portsmouth Naval
<Reply # 14 on 7/3/2008 2:15 PM >
| | | | Agreed... security is very high from baseside, and the Coast Guard means business seaside. The world we live in today is not very conducive to skulking around active military bases, unfortunately.
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Neophile
Location: Chicago, IL
Gender: Female
She dreams in digital.
| | Re: Portsmouth Naval
<Reply # 15 on 7/3/2008 3:13 PM >
| | | | Posted by murdermafia69
as put by a good friend... if they have a way in so do we...
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I have worked for the Navy in the past, and to be honest when I heard it was gutted my first intuition was that it could have been bored sailors. There are a lot of great people in our armed forces, but we also have a few degenerates. ;)
djspookman: that submarine construction building sounds awesome. If I can find someone with a current badge I may have to check it out as a "guest".
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Neophile
Location: Chicago, IL
Gender: Female
She dreams in digital.
| | Re: Portsmouth Naval
<Reply # 16 on 7/3/2008 3:42 PM >
| | | | Posted by Live-Bait
take an inflatable raft and predawn. launch from portsmouth ave bridge. report back here when your done paddling.
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After the USS Cole attack (http://en.wikipedi...ki/USS_Cole_attack) the Navy is very wary of small rafts. Enough said.
If you want an idea about what the interior looks like, there was a shot of a jail cell in the book "Weird New England". I want to go to this site, and have thought about it a fair amount, but ultimately did not think the risks were acceptable.
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Urbex Tom
Location: Massachusetts
Gender: Male
| | Re: Portsmouth Naval
<Reply # 17 on 7/3/2008 4:10 PM >
| | | | If you got caught there, you would be shot in a blip of a nanosecond.
backpack full of bear |
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Jeff!
Location: Boston, MA
Gender: Male
| | Re: Portsmouth Naval
<Reply # 19 on 7/3/2008 6:15 PM >
| | | | laugh out loud at this thread
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