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United States Navy torpedo boat USS DeLong (TB-28) under construction in the George Lawley & Son shipyard, Boston, 1900. George Lawley & Son was a shipbuilding firm operating in Massachusetts from 1866 to 1945.
In a letter, he informed Knowles of the riots and asked him to release the impressed Bostonians. Instead, Knowles threatened to bring up his warships and bombard Boston. Witnesses on the Canterbury later reported that Knowles appeared to have every intention of carrying through on his threat. One mariner heard Knowles tell the gunnery officer ...
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The "Victory Yard" was constructed to build destroyers and free up the Fore River Yard for other vessels including the battlecruiser-turned-aircraft carrier USS Lexington (CV-2). Bethlehem Hingham Shipyard, Hingham, Massachusetts (1940–1945). [14] Bethlehem Atlantic Works, East Boston, Massachusetts (1853–1984).
Curtis built ships at Medford, and later, after 1852, at East Boston, except for the occasional ship that he built elsewhere like the extreme clipper Witchcraft that he built at Chelsea, Massachusetts in 1850 with Mr. Taylor, and the Golden Fleece that he built in Boston in 1852. Also after 1852 he still occasionally built a ship in the ...
You learned about the Boston Tea Party in school but did you learn how New Bedford was involved in it?
But the dunk heard round the world happened in Boston, on Dec. 16, 1773, when "dozens of disguised men, some as Indigenous Americans, boarded the three East India Company ships and dumped 342 ...
The ship George was 110 feet 10 inches (33.78 m) by 27 feet 10 inches (8.48 m) by 13 feet 6 inches (4.11 m), displaced 328 short tons (298 t), and was designed somewhat like a Baltimore clipper. Built at Salem for a privateer in 1814, she was purchased by Mr. Peabody for US$5,250.