The Long Beach NSY industrial area encompassed of the total owned. There were 120 permanent, 39 semi-permanent, and 6 temporary buildings, for a total of 165 buildings. There were 17 different shop work areas and of covered building space. The shipyard had three graving docks, and five industrial piers. There were feet (3.8 km) of ship berthing space. Crane capacity ranged from to (portal) and from to (floating). The Long Beach NSY was placed in an inactive status on June 1, 1950. The Korean War began less than one month later. Reactivation of the shipyard was directed on January 4, 1951.