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The Brooklyn Navy Yard was established in 1801. From the early 1810s through the 1960s, it was an active shipyard for the United States Navy, and was also known as the United States Naval Shipyard, Brooklyn and New York Naval Shipyard at various points in its history. The Brooklyn Navy Yard produced wooden ships for the U.S. Navy through the 1870s.
Sullivan Drydock and Repair Corporation was a shipyard located in Brooklyn, New York. It was located off 23rd Street in Greenwood Heights/Sunset Park, in the Tebo Basin. [1] Sullivan DD&RC built Submarine chasers (PC boats), and altered, repaired and converted ships for various branches of the US military during World War II.
Quarters 'A', Brooklyn Navy Yard. 1800 – small population for the budding village on the western end of Long Island, recorded in the 1800 United States census; 1801 – Brooklyn Navy Yard established and begins construction along the eastern bank of the East River by the new United States Department of the Navy. Was repeatedly enlarged in the ...
The Jakobson Shipyard, Inc. traces its origins to founder Daniel Jakobson, who established the Jakobson & Peterson shipyard in Brooklyn, New York, in 1895. Jakobson was a native of Sweden who immigrated to the United States in 1877. His son, Irving Jakobson, succeeded him as President in 1925. The elder Jakobson died November 28, 1931, at his ...
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]
Constellation under construction at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in February 1960. USS Constellation was heavily damaged by fire while under construction on 19 December 1960. [2] [3] The carrier was in the final stages of construction at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in Brooklyn, New York when the fire began.
It was built as the quarters for the commandant of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Most notably, it was home to Commodore Matthew C. Perry (1794–1858) between 1841 and 1843. Perry was assigned to the yard from 1833 to 1843 in a variety of roles, during which time he is credited with improving the Navy's steamship navigation, education of enlisted men ...
The Morse Dry Dock and Repair Company was a major late 19th/early 20th century ship repair and conversion facility located in New York City.Begun in the 1880s as a small shipsmithing business known as the Morse Iron Works, the company grew to be one of America's largest ship repair and refit facilities, at one time owning the world's largest floating dry dock.