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Victory Plant Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts (1917–1919). The "Victory Yard" was constructed to build destroyers and free up the Fore River Yard for other vessels including the battlecruiser-turned-aircraft carrier USS Lexington (CV-2). Bethlehem Hingham Shipyard, Hingham, Massachusetts (1940–1945). [14]
Service to the Hingham shipyard ended in 1898, though some service to Crow's Point lasted until 1923. Most of the Nantasket Boat Lines ferries were destroyed in a 1929 fire. The service was increasingly unprofitable to run; only summer service lasted past 1933. Hingham service ended in 1952; the last remains of Nantasket service ended in 1963. [6]
The last ship delivered at the shipyard was LST 1080, which was delivered on 29 May 1945. [ 4 ] In 2017, the warehouse building (designated as Building #19) that had previously been headquarters of Building 19 (a discount retail outlet, which operated from the 1970s into the 2000s, which, at its peak, had about 20 stores throughout New England ...
The number of Victory Square residents who plan to move to a hotel remained fluid last week. Freeman believed only 13 tenants would need a hotel room because the rest either found a new home or ...
$2,300,000, 90 Foundry Lane,Canton, Jason and Janet Fensterstock to Babak Eliassi-Rad and Mary Samani, 1Ce. 8, 2023, single family. More: Brand new modern farmhouse has 4,050 square feet of living 2.
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The land for the Annex was bought by the U.S. Navy in 1941, from local landowners, to expand the nearby Hingham Naval Ammunition Depot, in Hingham.The Depot was the main ammunition supplier for Naval Forces of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet, during World War II, employing 2,091 civilians along with 721 naval officers and sailors and 375 Marine guards at its peak in June, 1945. [1]
Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Bethlehem Hingham Shipyard, Hingham, Massachusetts: 21 Jul 1942 9 Jan 1943 30 Apr 1943 3 Jul 1946 Reclassified DER-51 26 Apr 1949, reclassified DE-51 29 Sep 1954. Struck from Navy List 1 Jun 1968; sold for scrap July 1969 Charles Lawrence DE-53 1 Aug 1942 16 Feb 1943 31 May 1943 23 Oct 1944