• Thumbnail for Bethlehem Key Highway Shipyard
    Bethlehem Key Highway Shipyard started as William Skinner & Sons in downtown Baltimore, Maryland in 1815. In 1899 the shipyard was renamed Skinner Shipbuilding...
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    Sparrows Point Shipyard, Sparrows Point, Maryland (1914–1997). Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard, Baltimore, (1940–1945). Bethlehem Key Highway Shipyard, Baltimore...
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  • It was acquired by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation in 1916 and renamed as the Bethlehem Sparrows Point Shipyard. The shipyard was sold in 1997 to...
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  • Thumbnail for USS Diamond Head
    Transferred to the U.S. Navy on 10 March 1945, and converted at Bethlehem Key Highway Shipyard, Baltimore, Maryland to carry and transfer naval ammunition...
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  • Thumbnail for Francis Scott Key Bridge (Baltimore)
    looking to the northeast with Sparrows Point and the Bethlehem Steel Corporation steel mill and shipyards of southeast Baltimore County in the distance, February...
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  • Thumbnail for USS Indra
    Regina K. Hlubek; placed in reduced commission and brought to Bethlehem Key Highway Shipyard, Baltimore, for conversion, and commissioned 2 October 1945...
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  • Thumbnail for USS Webster
    contract (MCE hull 2666) on 1 July 1944 at Baltimore, MD, by the Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard, Inc. Sponsored by Mrs. Walter W. Webster, the widow of the ship's...
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  • Thumbnail for USS Menelaus
    decommissioned on 29 January; was converted to an ARL at the Bethlehem Key Highway Shipyard; and commissioned in full as Menelaus (ARL 13) 29 May 1945....
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  • Thumbnail for USS Palawan
    Augustine; converted to an internal combustion engine repair ship at Bethlehem Key Highway Shipyard, Baltimore; and commissioned on 3 May 1945. She was named for...
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  • Thumbnail for USS Patroclus
    Maryland; decommissioned on 27 November; converted to an ARL at the Bethlehem Key Highway Shipyard; and commissioned in full 17 April 1945. Following shakedown...
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  • Thumbnail for USS Numitor
    Massachusetts, by the Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard; launched on 18 October 1944. After conversion by Bethlehem Key Highway Shipyard, Baltimore, Maryland...
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  • Thumbnail for Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America
    15 signed a contract on May 15, 1941 covering workers at Bethlehem Steel Corporation's shipyard in Hoboken, New Jersey. This ended the company's policy...
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  • Thumbnail for USS Algonquin (tug)
    Toro was the second ship, hull number 2, constructed by the then small shipyard, and its success led to building the line's cargo and passenger ships El...
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  • Thumbnail for USS Hydra (AK-82)
    23 January 1943. The ship was converted for naval service at Bethlehem Steel, Key Highway, Baltimore, with completion on 27 May 1943. Hydra commissioned...
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    East Lines cargo. Golden Bear Korean Bear Japan Bear Built by Bethlehem Steel Co., Key Highway Yard, Baltimore, Maryland, in 1953 C4-S-1h Conversion for break...
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    five most populous cities are Allentown, Reading, Erie, Scranton, and Bethlehem. Pennsylvania's history of human habitation extends thousands of years...
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  • Thumbnail for Maryland Route 151
    with Bethlehem Steel's steel mills and shipyards at Sparrows Point. MD 151 was reconstructed and extended north as a four-lane divided highway from Sparrows...
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  • decommissioned at Baltimore on 27 April 1945; converted by the Bethlehem Steel Key Highway Shipyard; and placed in full commission on 28 July 1945. Bellona departed...
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    neighborhood residents were in the process of disappearing. The Bethlehem Steel shipyards on the east side of the hill was one of the last to close, in...
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  • Thumbnail for Bayview–Hunters Point, San Francisco
    southeastern corner of the city. The decommissioned Hunters Point Naval Shipyard is located within its boundaries and Candlestick Park, which was demolished...
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  • Thumbnail for USS Davis (DD-937)
    Forrest Sherman-class destroyer of the United States Navy laid down by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation at Quincy, Massachusetts, on 1 February 1955. The ship...
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  • Thumbnail for USS Amphitrite (ARL-29)
    decommissioned in Baltimore on 3 March 1945; converted by Bethlehem Steel's Key Highway Shipyard, and placed in full commission as USS Amphitrite (ARL-29)...
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  • Thumbnail for USS Arnold J. Isbell
    The ship was laid down on 14 March 1945 at Staten Island, New York, by Bethlehem Mariners Harbor, launched on 6 August 1945 and commissioned on 5 January...
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  • towards the Francis Scott Key Highway of 1913 ("Key Highway") and the shipyards from the Bethlehem Steel Corporation from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania bordering...
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  • Thumbnail for USS Vinton
    cargo ship configuration at Baltimore, Maryland, by the Bethlehem Steel Company's Key Highway plant; and commissioned on 23 February 1945. Following shakedown...
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  • Thumbnail for USS Avenge (AM-423)
    the Bethlehem Steel Corporation's Key Highway Shipyard on 30 August. The yardwork continued into 1969. On 27 September, she was drydocked at Bethlehem Fort...
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  • Thumbnail for USS Saugatuck
    delivered to the U.S. Navy, she was converted for naval service at Bethlehem Steel Co., Key Highway Plant, Baltimore, Maryland. She was commissioned on 19 February...
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    was economically divided. The Seacoast region revolved around sawmills, shipyards, merchants' warehouses, and established village and town centers, where...
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  • Thumbnail for USS Tyrrell
    on 8 August for conversion to an attack cargo ship by the Key Highway plant of the Bethlehem Steel Co.; and commissioned on 4 December 1944. After shakedown...
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    partial containerships. The conversion work was done at Todd Pacific Shipyards, Seattle, Washington. Overall length was extended by 105 ft. Bow thrusters...
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