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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.
In 1947–48 the shipyard converted the 20,614-gross register ton (GRT) troopship USAT Brazil back into the Moore-McCormack Lines ocean liner SS Brazil. [4] It was the largest peacetime conversion the yard had yet undertaken, and cost $9 million. [4] The western part of the site was used later for the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal, which opened in ...
The Brooklyn Spar Yard manufactured wooden ship masts, booms and gaffs. It’s prior names were I.P. Jones, Hudson and Langill’s, and the Endner Spar Yard. Atlantic Basin Iron Works, located on the Van Brunt Street pier, was also in the ship repair business. Todd Shipyards Corporation had the largest dry dock, see Erie Basin dry dock.
Admiral's Row was built on the site of a mill pond that existed early in the history of Brooklyn Navy Yard. [2]: 10 The majority of the residences, comprising Quarters B through G, were built before 1873. [2]: 10 The first houses, the French Empire-style Quarters E, F, and G, began construction in 1864 on the site of the Remsens' mill pond ...
The Continental Iron Works was an American shipbuilding and engineering company founded in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, in 1861 by Thomas F. Rowland.It is best known for building a number of monitor warships for the United States Navy during the American Civil War, most notably the first of the type, USS Monitor.
The request for information is related to the Navy's Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Program (SIOP), a once-in-a-century plan to upgrade its four aging public shipyards in Puget Sound ...
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 ...