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Roseway in Boston Harbor, 2006. Roseway was built in 1925 for Harold Hathaway of Taunton, Massachusetts at the John F. James & Son shipyard in Essex. Hathaway's intention was to build a boat that might beat the Canadians in the international fisherman's races popular at that time; to that end, Roseway was impeccably maintained and used only occasionally as a fishing boat.
Pedrick Store House, a three-story building, constructed around 1770, is a historic rigging and sail loft. It was relocated to the Salem Maritime National Historic Site from Marblehead, Massachusetts in 2007. [8] [9]
The South Boston Naval Annex was a 167-acre (68 ha) United States Navy shipyard annex located in South Boston. It was the annex of the Boston Navy Yard , and was operational from the 1920 to 1974, when it was closed along with the main shipyard.
History buffs and boating fans can get a taste of how seafaring life used to be with tours on wind-driven ships and to vintage warships and submarines. 28 Historic Ships That You Can Actually Sail ...
Also included is the stone counting house (also known as the Durant Sail Loft) built by Edward Merrill, the last surviving stone waterfront structure from New Bedford's heyday as a whaling center. (It does not include the long pier built by Merrill that is now called Homer's Wharf, which no longer retains historic integrity.) [ 2 ]
Ships moored at Long Wharf almost touched the eastern face of the building. The Custom House was built at the end of the City docks, to facilitate inspection and registration of cargo. [4] The federal government used the building to collect maritime duties in the age of Boston sailing ships. [6]
The 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party was already on the boil, with all sorts of commemorative programs on Cape and a splashy reenactment slated for Dec. 16 at the Boston Tea Party Ships ...
The following is a partial list of ships built at the Boston Navy Yard, also called the Charlestown Navy Yard and Boston Naval Shipyard. The year shown is the launch year. Aerial view of the Boston Navy Yard in April 1960. The South Boston Naval Annex, circa 1958. 1814: USS Independence (90-gun ship of the line) [1] War of 1812; Mexican ...