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The Boston Navy Yard, originally called the Charlestown Navy Yard and later Boston Naval Shipyard, was one of the oldest shipbuilding facilities in the United States Navy. It was established in 1801 as part of the recent establishment of the new U.S. Department of the Navy in 1798.
The following is a partial list of ships built at the Boston Navy Yard, also called the Charlestown Navy Yard and Boston Naval Shipyard. The year shown is the launch year. Aerial view of the Boston Navy Yard in April 1960. The South Boston Naval Annex, circa 1958. 1814: USS Independence (90-gun ship of the line) [1] War of 1812; Mexican ...
During the late 1970s and 1980s there were a series of racial assaults and attacks along this shipyard at the height of the Boston desegregation busing crisis.First on July 1, 1976, when it was reported that five youth threw rocks and bottles at black seaman Kevin A. Kaminsky aboard the USS Blandy and four other black men as they waited at a bus stop on their way back to the shipyard.
It was the annex of the Boston Navy Yard, and was operational from the 1920 to 1974, when it was closed along with the main shipyard. The annex is also home to Dry Dock Number 3, one of the largest dry docks on the East Coast. Most of the former annex site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022. [1]
A map of Boston near the end of the colonial period: the coastline was dotted with shipyards. Shipbuilding in the American colonies was the development of the shipbuilding industry in North America (modern Canada, the United States, and Bermuda), from British colonization to American independence.
The division's headquarters were moved to Quincy, Massachusetts, after acquiring the Fore River Shipyard in 1913. In 1940, Bethlehem Shipbuilding was the largest of the "Big Three" U.S. shipbuilders that could build any ship, [3] followed by Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock and New York Shipbuilding Corporation (New York
Edward A. Costigan (October 1820 – June 7, 1901), was a 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts shipbuilder. In 1858, he founded the E. A. Costigan shipyard at Commercial Street in Boston, where he built many notable pilot boats and scows. He was one of the oldest of Boston shipbuilders, being connected with shipbuilding most of his life.
United States Navy torpedo boat USS DeLong (TB-28) under construction in the George Lawley & Son shipyard, Boston, 1900. George Lawley & Son was a shipbuilding firm operating in Massachusetts from 1866 to 1945. It began in Scituate, then moved to Boston. After founder George Lawley (1823–1915) retired in 1890, his son, grandson and great ...