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    Crescent Shipyard, located on Newark Bay in Elizabeth, New Jersey, built a number of ships for the United States Navy and allied nations as well during...
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    submarines, were built at the Crescent Shipyard and the Union Iron Works, a shipbuilding firm near Mare Island Naval Shipyard, 20 miles north of San Francisco...
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    company funds. The prototype, named Fulton, was built at Lewis Nixon's Crescent Shipyard in New Jersey. It was a fortunate move, as the Fulton's company trials...
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    submersible Turtle. The boat was originally laid down as Holland VI at the Crescent Shipyard of Elizabeth, New Jersey for John Philip Holland's Holland Torpedo...
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    down on 21 May 1901 at Elizabethport, New Jersey, at Lewis Nixon's Crescent Shipyard. Arthur Leopold Busch supervised the construction of the A-Class submarines...
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    of the 20th century. Adder was laid down on 3 October 1900 at the Crescent Shipyard, Elizabethport, New Jersey, by Lewis Nixon, a subcontractor for the...
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    States Navy. Florida was ordered on 4 May 1898, and awarded to the Crescent Shipyard, Elizabethport, New Jersey, on 11 October 1898. She was laid down...
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  • City and New Orleans Crescent Air Cargo, an all-cargo airline based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India Crescent Shipyard, former shipyard in Elizabeth, New Jersey...
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    Leopold Busch on 8 November 1900 in Elizabeth, New Jersey at the Crescent Shipyard, launched on 20 August 1901, and commissioned on 17 January 1903 at...
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    ordered for the US Navy on 14 December 1899. She was laid down at the Crescent Shipyard of Elizabethport, New Jersey on 29 March 1900, and launched on 7 March...
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    13 December 1900 in Elizabeth, New Jersey at the Crescent Shipyard under the direction of shipyard superintendent, Arthur Leopold Busch. This craft was...
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    Marine Review. August 1938. p. 53. "Bethlehem Steel Elizabethport, Crescent Shipyard, Lewis Nixon, Samuel Moore". Archived from the original on 2007-09-28...
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    January 1901 at Elizabethport, New Jersey in the Crescent Shipyard under the direction of Crescent's superintendent, Arthur Leopold Busch. She was launched...
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  • submerged operations. Launched on 17 May 1897 at Navy Lt. Lewis Nixon's Crescent Shipyard in Elizabeth, New Jersey, the Holland VI was purchased by the United...
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    Holland. Seven more of her type were ordered, with five built at the Crescent Shipyard in Elizabeth, New Jersey, and two built at Union Iron Works in California...
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    General Dynamics Electric Boat (category Shipyards of the United States)
    developed at Lewis Nixon's Crescent Shipyard in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Holland VI was the first submarine that this shipyard built, which became USS Holland...
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    $860,000 USS Connecticut - Bath Iron Works - $862,000 USS Florida - Crescent Shipyard - $825,000 USS Wyoming - Union Iron Works - $875,000 Following the...
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    power underwater. Launched on 17 May 1897 at Navy Lt. Lewis Nixon's Crescent Shipyard in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Holland VI was purchased by the United States...
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  • of the US Navy ever since. The boat was developed at Lewis Nixon's Crescent Shipyard located in Elizabeth, New Jersey. This pioneering craft was in service...
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    Norfolk on 1 December 1919. In 1898 he ordered a new yacht from the Crescent Shipyard in Elizabethport, New Jersey, for $200,000. The second Columbia, constructed...
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  • Boat No. 3) on 3 October 1900 at Elizabethport, New Jersey, by the Crescent Shipyard of Lewis Nixon, a subcontractor for the John P. Holland Torpedo Boat...
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  • Virginia), then approached Nixon, who was then the lessor of the Crescent Shipyard in Elizabethport, New Jersey. Nixon agreed to work with Young in forming...
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    of Samuel de Champlain, and Quebec City. The vessel was built by Crescent Shipyard, Elizabeth, New Jersey as the American steam yacht Columbia, the second...
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    Originally named William S. Grattan, it was built in 1900 by the Crescent Shipyard of Elizabeth Port, New Jersey. Due to age, it was rebuilt in 1953...
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    standard. The Holland VI was built with Lewis Nixon, owner of the Crescent Shipyard in Elizabeth, New Jersey, where Holland VI was built. The Holland...
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    class were: Construction of Chattanooga was halted on 18 June 1903 when Crescent went out of business; she was completed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Galveston's...
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    a complement of 5 officers and 45 crew. Aztec was constructed by Crescent Shipyard at Elizabeth, New Jersey with the yard number 99 and launched in 22...
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    Long Island or along Chesapeake Bay. The yacht was constructed by Crescent Shipyard in Elizabeth, New Jersey, with the yard number 105 and launched in...
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    USS Holland (SS-1)), designed by John Philip Holland, at Lewis Nixon's Crescent Shipyard in Elizabeth, New Jersey; this is the first submarine having power...
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    The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, often called the Portsmouth Navy Yard, is a United States Navy shipyard on Seavey's Island in Kittery, Maine, bordering...
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