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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 …

  • Brooklyn Navy Yard
  • Shipspotting

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USNS Pathfinder, Submarine Hunter

At the Brooklyn Navy Yard‘s shipyard, operated by GMD, they repair mostly commercial ships, but they also get a fair number of federal government contracts. The shipyard does not repair …

  • Brooklyn Navy Yard
  • Shipspotting

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Highlights of the Harbor: Shipyards

For more than 150 years, shipbuilding was a pre-eminent industry in New York City. Shipyards building clipper ships, steamboats, and naval frigates once engulfed the shoreline of Lower Manhattan in …

  • Brooklyn Navy Yard
  • Events
  • Waterfront

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“We Need Your Skills”: Pearl Harbor and the Brooklyn Navy Yard

The Brooklyn Navy Yard is 5,000 miles from Pearl Harbor, and though the reverberations of the events there on December 7, 1941 were felt across the globe, they hit especially hard …

  • Brooklyn Navy Yard
  • Waterfront
  • World War II

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USS Slater Celebrates History of Destroyer Escorts

As I write this, the USS Slater, a World War II-era destroyer escort, is steaming its way (actually, being pushed by a tugboat) up the Hudson River back to its …

  • Brooklyn Navy Yard
  • Waterfront
  • World War II

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USS Slater at Caddell Dry Dock. Credit: Cindy VandenBosch

NYC Fleet Week Canceled, but USS Franklin Not Forgotten

The Brooklyn Navy Yard has been a place of refuge for much of its history. During its 165-year run as a naval shipyard, it did not just send ships down …

  • Brooklyn Navy Yard
  • World War II

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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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