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Hoboken Shipyard or Hoboken Yard or Beth Steel Hoboken (sometimes called The Plant) was a Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation shipyard that operated from 1938 to 1982 in Hoboken, New Jersey. Bethlehem Steel purchased the shipyard in 1938. The shipyard was founded in 1890 by the W. & A. Fletcher Company. In 1928 Fletcher sold the yard to United ...
Hoboken Shipyard, Hoboken, New Jersey (1938–1984). [9] [10] they were called the Staten Island Works, the Brooklyn 56th Street Works, the Brooklyn 27th Street Works and the Hoboken Works of the New York Plant of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation. [11] Bethlehem Elizabethport, Elizabethport, New Jersey (1916–1921). [12]
The Hoboken Historical Museum, founded in 1986, [1] is located in Hoboken, New Jersey and presents rotating exhibitions and activities related to the history, culture, architecture and historic landmarks of the city. In 2001, the museum moved to 1301 Hudson Street into the last standing building of the former Bethlehem Steel Hoboken Shipyard ...
Hoboken (/ ˈ h oʊ b oʊ k ən / HOH-boh-kən; [22] Unami: Hupokàn) [23] is a city in Hudson County in the U.S. state of New Jersey.Hoboken is part of the New York metropolitan area and is the site of Hoboken Terminal, a major transportation hub.
IUMSWA Local 15 signed a contract on May 15, 1941 covering workers at Bethlehem Steel Corporation's shipyard in Hoboken, New Jersey. This ended the company's policy of an open shop in shipbuilding, and was an important step towards the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC-CIO)'s success in the organizing the workers in Bethlehem's steel ...
Todd Shipyards was founded in 1916 as the William H. Todd Corporation when properties of the Tietjen & Lang Dry Dock Company of Hoboken, New Jersey were bought in 1916 by a syndicate headed by Bertron Griscom & Company of New York and placed under management of William H. Todd, president of the Robins Dry Dock & Repair Co., Erie Basin, Brooklyn, New York. [6]
B. Baltimore Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Corporation; Baltimore Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company; Barrett & Hilp, Concrete Ships; Basalt Rock Company; Bethlehem Atlantic Works
In March 1947 Connolly was specially converted for the transportation of United States' war dead at the Hoboken Shipyard of the Bethlehem Steel Company. [5] On 26 October 1947 she arrived at New York carrying the first 6,248 war dead from Europe.