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The Original Six: Repurposing America’s Naval Shipyards | Episode 245

At the dawn of the nineteenth century, the US Navy established six naval shipyards to build, repair, and outfit the fleet. From the “original six”—Boston, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Portsmouth, Norfolk, and …

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ARA General Belgrano: A Lost Ship, A Stolen Photograph

At 3:57 p.m. on May 2, 1982, the British submarine HMS Conqueror fired a spread of three torpedoes at the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano, located approximately 230 nautical miles …

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World War II

Color photo of a cruiser sinking with ocean in foreground and orange lifeboats on the water.

USS Edson: From Bath to Brooklyn to Bay City

On a quiet stretch of the Saginaw River just outside Bay City, Michigan, the USS Edson sits as a tribute to America’s Cold War destroyer fleet. Built at Maine’s Bath …

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USS Duluth, the End of an Era

On August 14, 1965, the Landing Platform Dock USS Duluth (LPD-6) floated out of Dry Dock No. 3 at the New York Naval Shipyard. In the preceding 145 years, this …

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A starboard bow view of the amphibious transport dock USS DULUTH (LPD-6) anchored during the joint U.S.-Canadian fleet Exercise MARCOT '93.

The Brooklyn Navy Yard and the US Occupation of Haiti, 1915–1934

As we reflect on the deeper meaning and troubling implication of the US president describing certain foreign countries as “shitholes,” it has also opened an opportunity to think critically about how …

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World War I

Portrait of Gompers as a young man in a suit and a newsboy style hat.

The Many Names of the Brooklyn Navy Yard

Some of the subjects we frequently have to address on our tours of the Brooklyn Navy Yard are: where is it? and what is the official name? So let’s start with the …

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World War II

Adams, Jefferson, and the Unlikely Founding of the Brooklyn Navy Yard

Two hundred and thirteen years ago today, the Brooklyn Navy Yard was founded, the last of the six original shipyards established by the US Navy. Today we celebrate the yard’s …

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Workers walk alongside a large stone dry dock in the Brooklyn Navy Yard with two white tugboats below and a red and white crane on the right.

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