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    The Philadelphia Naval Shipyard was the first United States Navy shipyard and was historically important for nearly two centuries. Construction of the...
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    mariner named Carl M. Allen at the United States Navy's Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, some time around October...
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    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States on part of the site of the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. The commercial yard began after the United States Navy had ended...
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    Sound Naval Shipyard – Bremerton, Washington Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam – Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Philadelphia Naval ShipyardPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania...
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  • of notable shipbuilders and shipyards: Suez shipyard Alexandria Shipyard Baku Shipyard FMC Dockyard Limited Ananda Shipyard and Shipways Chittagong Dry...
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    (SLEP) at Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. From 1990 to 1992, Constellation received her $800 million service life extension also in Philadelphia. The program...
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    1801 to 1966 Philadelphia Naval Shipyard 1799 to 1995, at two locations San Francisco Naval Shipyard, later Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, then Treasure...
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    president Woodrow Wilson. The Philly Shipyard is a private company operating on what was once the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. Delaware River Main Channel Deepening...
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    Inactive Ships On-site Maintenance facility in Philadelphia, formerly the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, and, until late 2017, was available for donation...
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    an active shipyard for the United States Navy, and was also known as the United States Naval Shipyard, Brooklyn and New York Naval Shipyard at various...
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    USS Claude V. Ricketts (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Naval Vessel Register)
    4 June 1960 and commissioned as USS Biddle on 5 May 1962, at Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. Biddle was renamed to Claude V. Ricketts on 28 July 1964 in...
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  • (CA-137) was a heavy cruiser laid down in December 1944 at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, but construction was cancelled in August 1945 USS Norfolk (DL-1)...
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  • the oath of allegiance on 23 October 1794 as a clerk at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard; his pay was set at $500.00 per annum. On April 12, 1804, William...
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  • experiment carried out by the U.S. Navy at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard (the so-called Philadelphia Experiment), met Albert Einstein there, and for...
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    might hit the Philadelphia shore on the far side of the Delaware River. The ship was commissioned 29 April 1961, at Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Captain William...
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  • California Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Virginia Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Pennsylvania Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Maine Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Washington...
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    USS Dale (DLG-19) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Naval Vessel Register)
    Corporation, Camden, New Jersey, USA and commissioned at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard on 23 November 1963. Her sponsor was Mrs. Daniel J. Flood. Assigned...
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    Radars" United States Naval Institute Proceedings December 1978 p.145 Polmar, Norman "The U.S. Navy: Shipboard Radars" United States Naval Institute Proceedings...
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    After the war she was quickly deemed surplus and scrapped at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in February 1946. Omaha's keel was laid down by the Todd Dry...
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    USS Guam (LPH-9) (category Ships built in Philadelphia)
    Jima-class amphibious assault ship, and was laid down by the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard on 15 November 1962; launched on 22 August 1964, sponsored by...
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    River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts. New York Shipbuilding in Camden, New Jersey, built four and the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in Philadelphia completed...
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    and Craft: An Illustrated Design History. Illustrated Design Histories. Naval Institute Press. pp. 351–362. ISBN 1-55750-250-1. Retrieved 22 March 2010...
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    direction per day, is the only route between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. The former Philadelphia Naval Shipyard is located at the confluence of the Delaware...
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    USS Wright (CVL-49) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
    commissioned at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard on 9 February 1947, with Captain Frank T. Ward in command. Wright departed Philadelphia on 18 March 1947...
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    the New York Naval Shipyard and Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, were run by the government. When bids were reviewed, the privately run shipyards' submissions...
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    the Philadelphia Navy Yard and entered service in 1944. The ship was modernized under the 1957 conversions program at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard and...
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    cruiser that preceded it. The desire for the Brooklyns arose from the London Naval Treaty of 1930, which limited the construction of heavy cruisers, i.e.,...
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    USS Barney (DDG-6) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
    Wortman, and commissioned at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard on 11 August 1962. After outfitting at Philadelphia, the guided missile destroyer put to...
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    USS Sea Leopard (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
    her first shipyard overhaul. Next came training exercises in the Key West area until late 1948, when she entered the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard for a Greater...
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    USS Cubera (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
    joined in fleet exercises until 4 July 1947 when she sailed to Philadelphia Naval Shipyard for an extensive GUPPY II modernization. Returning to Key West...
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