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	Boston Navy Yard / Charlestown Navy Yard
		Charlestown, Massachusetts, is the site of one of six navy yards established during the American Revolution to build warships for the United States.
		The one in Charlestown became the Boston Navy Yard.
		The yard's role in repairing and supplying vessels of the Navy continued to expand during the Spanish-American War and World War I. The large number of convoy escorts required by the allies to protect merchant shipping from German submarines and Boston's strategic location gave the yard an important repair responsibility.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/facility/charlestown.htm (1042 words)

	Charlestown Navy Yard
		Few ships were built at Charlestown, but those few made important contributions to the fleet: Merrimack, which became the famous confederate ironclad Virginia; Cumberland, which met her end in battle with the CSS Virginia; and Hartford, Admiral Farragut’s flagship at New Orleans.
		The yard’s role in repairing and supplying vessels of the Navy continued to expand during the Spanish-American War and World War I. The large number of convoy escorts required by the allies to protect merchant shipping form German submarines and Boston’s strategic location gave the yard an important repair responsibility.
		Charlestown is the site of one of the six navy yards established to bring together those skills and to build warships for the United States.
	www.north-america.de /old/navyyard.htm (1372 words)

	Boston Navy Yard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Boston Navy Yard, originally called the Charlestown Navy Yard and after 1945 called Boston Naval Shipyard, was one of the oldest shipbuilding facilities of the United States Navy.
		The land for the Charlestown Navy Yard was purchased in 1801 and the yard itself established shortly thereafter.
		^ Charlestown Navy Yard: The Shipyard on the Charles
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charlestown_Navy_Yard (494 words)

	Asbestos Exposure at Charlestown Navy Yard - Early, Ludwick, Sweeney and Strauss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, MA was established by the Secretary of the Navy along with five other federal yards located in Portsmouth, NH, New York, Philadelphia, Washington DC, and Norfolk, VA in 1800-1801.
		Today, the Charlestown Navy Yard is closely associated with the U.S.S. Constitution, a frigate that inaugurated the yard's dry dock in 1833 and was later serviced on the same dock from 1992 to 1995.
		The yard's workforce increased from 5,000 in 1939 to 50,000 at Charlestown and its annexes in mid-1943.
	www.elslaw.com /jobsites_ma_charlestown.htm (1326 words)

	Charlestown Business Association - history of Charlestown, Massachusetts - where the battle of Bunker Hill took place, ...
		Charlestown, Massachusetts, named for King Charles I, was settled by English colonists in 1628 and was located on a peninsula known as "Mishawum" by the Native Americans.
		On January 1, 1874 Charlestown was officially annexed to the City of Boston and its landscape changed drastically with the advent of the elevated streetcar or the "El" in the early 20th century.
		Accessible by the Charlestown Bridge or officially the North Washington Street Bridge, which connects the North End and City Square, the town is known for its restored early nineteenth-century houses, the redeveloped Navy Yard, gas lamps, and the Bunker Hill Monument.
	www.charlestownbusiness.com /history.html (1718 words)

	Boston Naval Shipyard, featured in Maritime History of Massachusetts--A National Register of Historic Places Travel ...
		The Yard, consisting of industrial buildings, cranes, dry docks, slips, piers, residences and military buildings, is situated along the southeastern Charlestown waterfront in Boston's inner harbor.
		Navy tradition dictates that a shore station or yard was named after the largest city in the geographical area—in this case the U.S. Navy Yard, Boston.
		The act formalized Charlestown Navy Yard as the legal name of the property, and thirty acres of the original 129.5-acre navy yard were designated as part of the park.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/maritime/bns.htm (509 words)

	Our National Parks Student Journalism Project
		Despite being located in Charlestown, the Navy Yard is a big part of the Boston National Historical Park and is on the famed Freedom Trail.
		The Charlestown Navy Yard was more than just a place where ships were built and restocked; it was also a living place for high ranking officers.
		Sitting on a hill overlooking the waterfront, the elegant commandant’s house is one of the oldest structures in the Navy Yard, built in 1805 by the first commandant of the Navy Yard and his family.
	com.miami.edu /Parks/bosnavyyard.htm (1461 words)

	Navy-Yard-Org
		Assistant Secretary of the Navy, who was charged with the general administrative control of the material and personnel activities of all naval shore establishments, as well as supervising the preparation of departmental estimates for the navy's Budget Officer, which in turn the Secretary of the Navy submitted to the Bureau of the Budget.
		The history of the civil service in the navy yards can be found in the early sections of these pages: (1), for the trades workers; (2), for everyone else, administrative and professional.
		To increase navy yard security all workers had their pictures taken for ID badges, and as a final rite they had to swear a oath as to the veracity of their application and their willingness to abide by all civil service regulations.
	www.columbia.edu /~jrs9/Navy-Yard-Org.html (4054 words)

	Navy Yard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Established in 1800, Charlestown Navy Yard served the fleet with distinction--especially proving its worth in each of the nation's wars--until its closing in 1974.
		In its 174-year history, Charlestown Navy Yard played an important role in the birth, growth, and continued effectiveness of the U.S. Navy.
		The ranger-guided walking tour explores the yard's 174 years of history by taking visitors past such sites as the Chain Forge, where die-lock anchor chain was first manufactured; the Ropewalk, a quarter-mile long building designed by famed architect Alexander Parris; and Dry Dock 1, one of the first two dry docks constructed in the nation.
	www.nps.gov /bost/Navy_Yard.htm (481 words)

	Navy Yard
		Congress created a two-ocean Navy in November 1939, and 10 months later the U.S. traded 50 overage destroyers for British bases in the Atlantic and Caribbean.
		With the entry of the U.S. into the war, the navy yard turned full time to aid the war effort.
		In 1975, after Constitution was drydocked, one phase of the yard's activities came to an end.
	www.charlestownonline.net /navyyard.htm (823 words)

	Mesothelioma SOS - Asbestos Exposure at Charlestown Navy Yard/Boston Navy Yard
		Along with five additional locations on the Northeastern coast of the U.S., the Charlestown (Boston) Navy Yard was established at the turn of the 19th century by mandate from the Secretary of the Navy.
		During this time, the Charlestown Yard became largely responsible for the dismantling of old vessels and many shipyard employees found themselves without a job.
		The yard was used for little else during the Korean and Vietnam Wars and eventually closed in the mid-1970s.
	www.mesotheliomasos.com /jobsitesCharlestown.php (453 words)

	Dry Dock No. 1, Charlestown Navy Yard
		It was included in the portion of the Navy Yard designated by Congress in Oct. 1984 as the Charlestown Navy Yard unit of Boston National Historical Park.
		The hull of "Old Ironsides," the frigate Constitution, was taken into the Dry Dock at the Charlestown Navy Yard yesterday morning, under the superintendence of Commodores [Isaac] Hull and [Jesse] Elliot, and the whole operation was conducted in fine style.
		In June 1844 Parris wrote a letter to Secretary of the Navy John Y. Mason seeking employment on the construction of the newly-authorized dry dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
	www.hnsa.org /conf2004/papers/carlson.htm (5753 words)

	Freedom Trail-Charlestown Navy Yard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Today the yard is home to USS Constitution, the oldest commissioned warship afloat in the world, and the USS Constitution Museum.
		The USS Constitution Museum is located in the Charlestown Navy Yard near the ship.
		The Naval Historical Center Detachment Boston, housed in Building 24 in the Charlestown Navy Yard is responsible for the maintenance, repair and restoration of USS Constitution.
	www.nps.gov /bost/Charlestown_Navy_Yard.htm (148 words)

	Events of the 1920s -- Drydocking of USS S-4, March 1928 (Part II)
		Secretary of the Navy Curtis D. Wilbur (on gangplank, in center) boarding the submarine during an inspection tour, soon after she was salvaged from the ocean off Provincetown, Massachusetts, where she was sunk in a collision with USCGC Paulding on 17 December 1927.
		Secretary of the Navy Curtis D. Wilbur (left center) inspecting the submarine, soon after she was salvaged from the ocean off Provincetown, Massachusetts, where she was sunk in a collision with USCGC Paulding on 17 December 1927.
		Secretary of the Navy Curtis D. Wilbur inspecting the submarine, soon after she was salvaged from the ocean off Provincetown, Massachusetts, where she was sunk in a collision with USCGC Paulding on 17 December 1927.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/events/ev-1920s/ev-1927/s4-slv3.htm (740 words)

	Boston Navy Yard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Boston Navy Yard originally Charlestown Navy Yard and after 1945 Boston Naval Shipyard was one of the oldest shipbuilding facilities of the United States Navy.
		The land for the Charlestown Navy was purchased in 1801 and the yard itself established shortly The yard built the first US ship of the line the USS Independence but was primarily a repair and facility until the 1890s when it started to build steel for the "New Navy".
		The Charlestown Navy Yard ably fulfills its mission of a comprehensive description of the Boston shipyard and many of its historical events.
	www.freeglossary.com /Boston_Navy_Yard (624 words)

	The Charlestown Bridge
		The crowd amassed at the Barry Playground at the corner of Chelsea and Medford streets and was led by a bagpiper and preceded by police and fire vehicles.
		The Friends of the Charlestown Navy Yard will host a community meeting to discuss proposed legislation that will change how Chapter 91 regulations are interpreted in regards to Parcel 6 in the Navy Yard, the future site of Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital’s new facility.
		And as they did in the primary, Charlestown voters are going to come out and vote for Ryan, their home-town boy, who is the well-liked and well-known local aide to Congressman Mike Capuano.
	www.charlestownbridge.com /archive/news_db/20060608/20060608.html (4417 words)

	Destroyer History — Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, MA
		Destroyer History — Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, MA Boston Navy Yard, on the Mystic River at Charlestown, Massachusetts, is located within walking distance across the Charles River from downtown Boston.
		Originally called Charlestown Navy Yard, then Boston Navy Yard and, from 1945, Boston Naval Shipyard, it was one of America’s earliest naval shipbuilding facilities.
		After determined it obsolete in the early 1970s, the Navy transferred the yard to the National Park Service 1 July 1974.
	www.destroyerhistory.org /destroyers/bostonny.html (305 words)

	Naval History Magazine: Boston's Naval Treasures, TOM HUNTINGTON
		With the yard in the background, "Old Ironsides'" topmasts are lowered and signal flags flying on her 208th birthday.
		She was launched in Boston on 21 October 1797, and now makes her home at the former navy yard in Charlestown, Massachusetts, just across the mouth of the Charles River from the spot where she first slipped down the ways.
		Located in the navy yard's Building No. 22, a sturdy granite structure that once housed the pumps for Dry Dock No. 1, the museum is a private, non-profit institution that works closely with the Navy and the National Park Service.
	www.usni.org /navalhistory/articles06/NHHuntingtonApr.html (4384 words)

	Events of the 1920s--Sinking and Salvage of USS S-4, 17 December 1927 - March 1928
		On the Marine Railway at the Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts, 26 December 1927, showing damage to her bow from her collision with USS S-4 (SS-109) on 17 December 1927.
		Taken while she was in dry dock at the Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts, after being salvaged off Provincetown, Massachusetts, where she had been sunk in collision with USCGC Paulding on 17 December 1927.
		Photographed in dry dock at the Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts, 20 March 1928.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/events/ev-1920s/ev-1927/s4-skg.htm (741 words)

	Affordable Housing Design Advisor
		In responding to the historical 19th century buildings of a former navy yard, the Charlestown Navy Yard Rowhouses complement the attractive and expensive residential properties of the surrounding community, making possible the residents' continuing pride in their neighborhood.
		The stacked townhouse units running through the building from front to back have private yards at ground level and open decks on the upper floor.
		In respect to urban design, one of the achievements of this development is to create continuity both with the simplicity and solidity of the older industrial buildings on First Avenue and the long linear forms of the Charleston Navy Yard buildings that run perpendicular to the waterfront.
	www.designadvisor.org /gallery/charlestown.html (448 words)

	Directions
		Charlestown has two Orange Line MBTA stops, Community College and Sullivan Square.
		It also has two MBTA bus lines, the 92 on Main St. and the 93 on Bunker Hill St. There are two MBTA water shuttles, the Charlestown Navy Yard to Long Wharf and the Charlestown Navy Yard to Lovejoy.
		You can walk it from the Navy Yard across the bridge to the North End and the Financial District in 10 to 30 minutes, depending on how far you go.
	www.charlestownonline.net /directions.htm (119 words)

	Boston Apartments - THE FREEDOM TRAIL
		Sixteen historic sites, including the Downtown and Charlestown sites of Boston National Historical Park, are connected by the 2.5-mile (4 km) Freedom Trail that runs through downtown Boston and Charlestown and is marked by a red painted or brick line on the pavement.
		At the Navy Yard, rangers conduct tours of the Charlestown Navy Yard, Commandant's House and World War Two destroyer U.S.S. Cassin Young, seasonally.
		Rest rooms are located at the downtown and Charlestown Navy Yard visitor centers, Faneuil Hall and the Bunker Hill Monument.
	www.bostonapartments.com /parkbost.htm (970 words)

	Wondercabinet: Charlestown Navy Yard
		Wondercabinet has been working with the Boston National Historical Park and the Boston Redevelopment Authority on several projects at the Charlestown Navy Yard.
		Upon its closing in 1974, 30 acres of the historic yard were set aside for the National Park Service as a living museum of the Navy's activities there.
		Wondercabinet created an exhibit plan and space allocation assessment for the historic ropewalk building, to facilitate an anticipated joint commercial and NPS development of the building.
	www.wondercabinet.com /what/highlights/CNY.html (102 words)

	Charlestown Business Association - history of Charlestown, Massachusetts - where the battle of Bunker Hill took place, ...
		Built to commemorate the Battle of Bunker Hill, the Bunker Hill Monument opened to the public in 1842.
		The Museum is located adjacent to USS Constitution, in Building 22, Boston National Historical Park, Charlestown Navy Yard, Boston.
		Ninety-minute tours begin at the Visitor Center at 15 State Street and cover the heart of the Freedom Trail from the Old South Meeting House to the Old North Church.
	www.charlestownbusiness.com /attractions.html (438 words)

	Properties - Navy Yard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Navy Yard: Call Jed at 617 242 1710 for details.
		Additionally, public transportation and a water shuffle are available at the Charlestown Navy Yard, as are convenient shopping, dry cleaning services and a marina as well as restaurants, hair salons and many specialty stores.
		Navy Yard, 13th Street - 2 private first floor offices at the Captain's Quarters, approximately 700SF.
	www.navyyardrealty.com /navyyard.html (678 words)

	Boston/Charlestown - Wikitravel
		Boston's Charlestown was the traditional home of employees at the now-decommissioned Navy Yard.
		Recently it has experienced a shift in its population and industry and an increasing number of young professionals are joining the families who have lived in the area for years.
		The Charlestown Navy Yard, a national historic landmark, has been converted to residential and office space.
	wikitravel.org /en/Boston/Charlestown (170 words)

	Navy Yard Bistro and Wine Bar
		"It's about time" the Charlestown Navy Yard housed a bistro, say area workers about this "much-needed" "find" for New American plates that get "an A for effort" on the part of the "accessible and affable" chef and "accommodating" owner - who also establish a "relaxed atmosphere" in keeping with the breezy interior.
		Owner John Moore (right) is shown with Chuck Hogan, author of the novel "Prince of Thieves", at a benefit that raised $545 for the clubs.
		Click here to listen to Billy Costa interview Navy Yard Bistro owner John Moore for the Great Guests segment of TV Diner.
	www.navyyardbistro.com /reviews.html (255 words)

	Eons: About Us
		These structures served a variety of functions within the working yard, as both a civilian (non-Navy) industrial work place and as home to naval officers and their families.
		The octagonal brick Muster House was built in the Georgian Revival style in 1853 based on a design used for muster offices erected in other navy yards during the same period.
		The civilian shipyard workers living in Charlestown and nearby communities assembled to the ringing of the bell atop the Muster House in the morning, at noon for roll call, and to receive their pay.
	www.eons.com /about/eons (2698 words)

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