News Release

2025 Mooring Quays Restoration

USS Arizona Mooring Quay

NPS

News Release Date: April 26, 2025
Contact: David Kilton, 808-633-5274

HONOLULU – Pearl Harbor National Memorial and the National Park Service’s Historic Preservation Training Center will begin restoration and preservation work April 28 on two of six historic mooring quays that line Ford Island. These structures provided anchor points to which ships tied off while at port in Pearl Harbor in 1941. These structures have weathered considerably after over 80 years of marking where the climax of the devastating Japanese attacks on US Navy battleships occurred on the morning of December 7, 1941.

The NPS began this work in 2023 and have completed restoration of two mooring quays to date. The work on the next two structures will be much more visible to USS Arizona Memorial visitors, as they are directly adjacent to the sunken battleship. These structures were the anchor points to which the USS Arizona and USS Vestal were tied off that fateful morning.

To learn more about the details of this project, please click on the following link. Silent Sentinels: Preserving the Mooring Quays of Pearl Harbor National Memorial (U.S. National Park Service)

The current phase of the work will not impact guests visiting the USS Arizona Memorial. The park expects that these two structures will be completed by 2026 and the full project restoring all six mooring quays will be completed by 2028.

For more information about the memorial, please visit www.nps.gov/pearlharbor and www.facebook.com/PearlHarborNPS or visit, The Mooring Quays of Battleship Row - Pearl Harbor National Memorial (U.S. National Park Service)

About the National Park Service. More than 20,000 National Park Service employees care for America’s 431 national parks and work with communities across the nation to help preserve local history and create close-to-home recreational opportunities. Learn more at www.nps.gov.

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