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Petty Island (also Pettys Island; [1] or Petty's Island) is a 292-acre (1.18 km 2) [2] island located in the Delaware River, which forms the border between Pennsylvania and New Jersey in the United States.
In 1918, a 4.5-mile (7.2 km) rail line was built to connect Hog Island with Philadelphia: the 60th Street Branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad. [ 1 ] The first ship, named SS Quistconck for the Lenape name for the site, was christened August 5, 1918, by Edith Bolling Wilson , wife of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson . [ 2 ]
The memorial chapel to the Four Chaplains is located on the grounds. [11] After World War II, the workforce dropped to 12,000, as the Navy stabilized its fleet. In the 1960s, the Navy began to contract with private companies to construct new ships. The yard built its last new ship, the command ship Blue Ridge, in 1970. [citation needed]
USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) was the lead ship of the Pennsylvania class of super-dreadnought battleships built for the United States Navy in the 1910s. The Pennsylvanias were part of the standard-type battleship series, and marked an incremental improvement over the preceding Nevada class, carrying an extra pair of 14-inch (356 mm) guns for a total of twelve guns.
At the time Hog Island was the largest shipyard in the world, with 50 slipways. The first ship, named SS Quistconck for the Lenape name for the site, was christened August 5, 1918, by Edith Bolling Wilson, wife of U.S. president Woodrow Wilson. [13] The Philly Shipyard is a private company operating on what was once the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard.
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The township boundary encompasses Neville Island and a surrounding portion of the Ohio River. [6] According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 2.2 square miles (5.7 km 2), of which 1.3 square miles (3.4 km 2) is land and 0.9 square miles (2.3 km 2) (40.36%) is water.
The Pennsylvania navy's ship color included (1) an ensign; (2) a long, narrow pennant; and (3) a short, narrow pennant. The ensign was a blue flag with 13 stripes—seven red stripes and six white stripes in the flag's canton (upper-left-hand corner). It was flown from a pole at the rear of the ship.