USS CHEYENNE
DEPLAQUING
CEREMONY
On January 14, 2025, the traditional deplaquing ceremony took place in Tirante Tavern at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. When a submarine enters the Shipyard for maintenance and overhaul, a plaque with the sub's logo joins the plaques of others on temporary assignment to Submarine Squadron Two for work at PNS. When the job is completed and the sub is returned to the fleet, the plaque is removed and hung in the bar area alongside dozens of others.
PORTSMOUTH & THE NAVY
The USS Cheyenne is part of an illustrious Portsmouth-connected Navy past. Portsmouth is not just “a Navy town” or the place that built the Raleigh, one of America’s first ships of the line and pictured at the center of the official Seal of New Hampshire. And Portsmouth Naval Shipyard is not ‘just’ the oldest continuously-operating Navy shipyard in the country (established 1800).
ABOUT US
The Portsmouth Host Community Welcome Committee is dedicated to making Portsmouth a memory you will cherish, along with your families. Portsmouth has loved our sailors since before the US was a country. Men from Portsmouth and Kittery sailed with Captain John Paul Jones when they took Ranger in harm's way against the British in 1777. Soon after becoming a country the boatyards on the Piscataqua River became Portsmouth Navy Yard in 1800. Portsmouth Naval Shipyard has helped take the US Navy "from sails to atoms" and is dedicated to being the "gold standard" for 773, its sailors and your families.