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Pages in category "Ships built in Perth Amboy, New Jersey" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Perth Amboy is located at the mouth of the Raritan River at the Raritan Bay, an arm of the Lower New York Bay. Perth Amboy served as New Jersey's capital from 1686 until 1776. In 1684, it became the capital of East Jersey and remained so after the union of East and West Jersey in 1702, becoming an alternate colonial capital with Burlington ...
Ships built in Perth Amboy, New Jersey (7 P) Pages in category "Ships built in New Jersey" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total.
Ship Image Year designated Arizona: USS Arizona (BB-39) [citation needed] Two earlier iterations of USS Arizona [citation needed] California: Californian (state tall ship) 2003 [1] Connecticut: USS Nautilus (SSN-571) 1983 [2] [3] Freedom Schooner Amistad (state flagship and tall ship ambassador) 2003 [3] Delaware: Kalmar Nyckel (state tall ship ...
The original Carteret Boat Club was housed in a one-room building containing a pot-belly stove, some canoes hanging from slings, and a porch where members would sit in rocking chairs watching the boats on the water. [5] The original Perth Amboy Yacht Club consisted mostly of prominent citizens with sailboats—though their numbers were ...
May have been converted to a bell boat in 1841, but may have been two ships. (The first retired in 1830.) [A] [3] Lightship BB: c. 1841: c. 1852: Carysfort Reef (1841 – 1841) Unknown [A] [3] Lightship DD: c. 1825: 1861: Lower Cedar Point (1825 – 1861) Sunk or captured by the Confederate States Navy in 1861 [A] [3] Lightship EE: before
An 1899 advertisement for the Crescent Shipyard. Crescent Shipyard, located on Newark Bay in Elizabeth, New Jersey, built a number of ships for the United States Navy and allied nations as well during their production run, which lasted about ten years while under the Crescent name and banner.
The Lenape Native Americans called the point on which the city is built "Ompoge", meaning "level ground" [1] or "standing or upright". [24] When settled in 1683, the new city was dubbed "New Perth" in honor of James Drummond, Earl of Perth, one of the 12 associates of a company of Scottish proprietors; Drummond has been honored with a statue located outside of city hall. [25]