The Brooklyn Navy Yard

The Brooklyn Navy Yard
Author: Thomas F. Berner
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1999-11-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780738556956

Not much larger than a few city blocks (219 acres, plus 72 acres of water), the Brooklyn Navy Yard is one of the most historically significant sites in America. It was one of the U.S. Navy's major shipbuilding and repair yards from 1801 to 1966. It produced more than 80 warships and hundreds of smaller vessels. At its height during World War II, it worked around the clock, employing some 70,000 people. The yard built the Monitor, the world's first modern warship; the Maine, whose destruction set off the Spanish-American War; the Arizona, whose sinking launched America into World War II; and the Missouri, on whose deck World War II ended. On June 25, 1966, the flag at the Brooklyn Navy Yard was lowered for the last time and the 165-year-old institution ceased to exist. Sold to the City of New York for $22.4 million, the yard became a site for storage of vehicles, some light industry, and a modest amount of civilian ship repair.

Vessel Construction for Nonsubsidized Merchant and Fishing Fleets

Vessel Construction for Nonsubsidized Merchant and Fishing Fleets
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Publisher:
Total Pages: 68
Release: 1966
Genre: Maritime law
ISBN:

Committee Serial No. 89-73. Considers S. 1858, to promote replacement and expansion of nonsubsidized merchant and fishing fleets by allowing Commerce and Interior Depts to enter into contractual arrangements with companies for construction of vessels to be privately owned and financed.

Shipbuilding Technology and Education

Shipbuilding Technology and Education
Author: Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 161
Release: 1996-05-22
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 030905382X

The U.S. shipbuilding industry now confronts grave challenges in providing essential support of national objectives. With recent emphasis on renewal of the U.S. naval fleet, followed by the defense builddown, U.S. shipbuilders have fallen far behind in commercial ship construction, and face powerful new competition from abroad. This book examines ways to reestablish the U.S. industry, to provide a technology base and R&D infrastructure sustaining both commercial and military goals. Comparing U.S. and foreign shipbuilders in four technological areas, the authors find that U.S. builders lag most severely in business process technologies, and in technologies of new products and materials. New advances in system technologies, such as simulation, are also needed, as are continuing developments in shipyard production technologies. The report identifies roles that various government agencies, academia, and, especially, industry itself must play for the U.S. shipbuilding industry to attempt a turnaround.