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This is a list of the 133 National Historic Landmarks in the United States that are ships, shipwrecks, or shipyards. [1]Of the more than 2,500 NHLs, about 5 percent are ships, shipwrecks, or shipyards.
Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation, Portland, Oregon, part of the Kaiser Shipyards Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard , Pearl Harbor , Hawaii Pennellville Historic District
Shipyards on the National Register of Historic Places (1 C, 16 P) Pages in category "Shipyards of the United States" The following 45 pages are in this category, out of 45 total.
The Atlantic triangular trade formed a major component of the colonial American economy, involving Europe, Africa and the Americas.The primary component of the transatlantic triangular trade consisted of slave ships from Europe sailing to Africa loaded with manufactured goods; once the ships arrived at African shores, the European slavers would exchange the goods aboard their ships for ...
This includes ships formerly serving as museums or preserved at museums, as well as current ones. This includes ships on static display or floating and sometimes used for excursions. It includes only genuine historic ships; replica ships, some associated with museums, are listed separately in the List of ship replicas.
Originally ordered by the Maritime Commission (MC hull 687) during World War II, as one of the Admiral W. S. Benson-class Type P2-SE2-R1 transport ships, completed instead as passenger ship. 1950s SS Independence: February 1951 American Export Lines: Fore River Shipyard, Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Quincy, Massachusetts [26] Henry ...
The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (PNS), often called the Portsmouth Navy Yard, is a United States Navy shipyard on Seavey's Island in Kittery, Maine, bordering Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The naval yard lies along the southern boundary of Maine on the Piscataqua River .
The Russian-American Company (RAC) ship wrecked on a reef at Kruzof Island, killing 53 people, including Terentii Stepanovich Bornovolokov, who was to replace Alexander Baranov as Governor of the RAC. Total loss from the wreck over 250,000 rubles. Second gravest marine catastrophe in the history of Russian America, after the loss of Feniks in ...