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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 53122

U.S. Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York


Engraving by Worcester & Company, from a Boston newspaper dated 8 November 1851, depicting the interior esplanade fronting the Navy Yard, with USS North Carolina alongside the dock in the center of the image.
Also shown, at right, is the shiphouse in which USS Fulton was being rebuilt. USS Sabine was then also under construction in the shiphouse at left.
Note the shot piles in the foreground.

New York Naval Shipyard Collection, 1966.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 281KB; 775 x 820 pixels

 

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Image posted 29 March 2005