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		At the head of the bureau of yards and docks was Joseph Smith, whose continuous service in the navy for nearly a half-century and whose occupancy of the position at the head of the bureau from 1845 had qualified him also to meet the unlooked-for emergency of war.
		Lying at the Gosport Navy-Yard at Norfolk, Virginia, were some of the navy's strongest, most formidable, and most historic ships--the steam frigate Merrimac, of forty guns, that was soon to make the world ring with her name; the sloop-of-war Germantown, of twenty-two guns; the Plymouth, of the same number, and the brig Dolphin.
		But now, as the navy grew, most of the purchased ships were made ready for use, and before the close of 1861, were sent southward to establish and strengthen this blockade, and by the end of the year the ports of the Confederacy were fairly well guarded by Federal vessels cruising at their harbors' mouths.
	www.civilwarhome.com /unionnavy.htm (3809 words)

	Norfolk Naval Shipyard - TheBestLinks.com - Gosport Navy Yard, American Revolution, Battleship, Confederate States of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Norfolk Naval Shipyard, often called the Norfolk Navy Yard, is a U.S. Navy facility in Portsmouth, Virginia, for building, remodeling, and repairing the Navy's ships.
		In 1799 the keel of the USS Chesapeake, a sister ship to the Constitution, was laid, making her the first ship built in Gosport for the U.S. Navy.
		In fact, the Norfolk yard is the only facility on the east coast capable of dry docking nuclear aircraft carriers.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Gosport_Navy_Yard.html (632 words)

	NWC Review, Winter 2001: Surdam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Navy Department did not even have direct access to what little money it was allocated; it had to apply to the Treasury Department for its funds, which incurred delay and inconvenience.
		Thus, the Federal navy’s blockade became a form of self-preservation, as a weak effort would have eased the South’s difficulties in constructing or obtaining a strong navy and then sweeping away the blockaders.
		A strong Confederate navy was not a chimera, but it would have required extraordinary foresight and skill, and perhaps not a little luck, to transform into reality.
	www.nwc.navy.mil /press/Review/2001/Winter/art7-w01.htm (9012 words)

	Old Dominion University Libraries - Special Collections - Manuscripts
		They were involved in securing supplies for the Navy and in the purchase of material for the con-struction and repair of ships and buildings at the yard.
		Warrington was appointed midshipman in the Navy on January 6, 1800.
		The Navy Yard was evacuated and burned by the Confederate Navy on May 10, 1862.
	www.lib.odu.edu /special/manuscripts/webbfamily.htm (1888 words)

	NORFOLK NAVAL SHIPYARD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Known for most of its first century as "Gosport", it was renamed "Norfolk" in 1862 after the largest city in the area.
		It was in this yard that the partly burned steam frigate USS MERRIMACK was converted by the Confederates into the CSS VIRGINIA.
		The yard's employment peak of nearly 43,000 workers was reached during World War II when the yard built nearly 30 major vessels and repaired 6,850 U.S. and Allied ships.
	www.nnsy1.navy.mil /History/HISTORY.HTM (627 words)

	The Battle Of Big Bethel (Confederate Military History)
		Before this could be successfully made it was necessary to secure Norfolk and the Gosport navy yard and their defenses, which guarded the entrance to the waterway of the James, and Yorktown and Gloucester point, which guarded that to the York.
		Gosport navy yard burned and evacuated by the enemy; 2,500 guns, artillery and ordnance saved, and 3,000 barrels of powder; also large supply of caps, and shells loaded, with the Bormann fuse attached.
		The commandant of the Norfolk navy yard was ordered on the 18th to furnish eight 32-pounders, carriages for ten 42-pounders, and four large launches and cutters, as early as possible, for the defenses of York river.
	www.civilwarhome.com /CMHbigbethel.htm (7623 words)

	A Chronological History
		The Marine Detachment, Brooklyn Navy Yard is placed under arms to protect the Brooklyn Navy Yard from a possible riot of secessionist sympathizers.
		U.S. Marines of the Washington Navy Yard were assigned the defense of the Washington Navy Yard's main gate.
		Fifty U.S. Marines, commanded by Captain Hiram Paulding, from the Washington Navy Yard, sailed on the sloop USS Pawnee to reinforce the Gosport Navy Yard, Norfolk, VA.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Plains/4198/history.htm (5791 words)

	NORFOLK NAVAL SHIPYARD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It should be noted that the yard was not totally destroyed, as envisioned by the writer.
		The steamers William Selden, Cayuga and Pilot Bay are burning in the stream, off the Navy yard, as are a large number of schooners and canal boats.
		They have now just set fire to a canal boat, which is running down the stream with the tide, but has her rudder so strapped up that she is heading in for the shore.
	www.nnsy1.navy.mil /history/DESTRUCT.HTM (268 words)

	Confederate Navy
		In either case, in the statistics of the U.S. Navy ships, the figure chosen to used were those of the ship when first serving with her respective Navy.
		On the 20th, before evacuating the Navy Yard, the U.S. Navy burned MERRIMACK to the waterline and sank her to preclude capture.
		NEUSE CSS NEUSE was a steam sloop built in 1863-64 for the Confederate Navy by Elliot Smith and Co. at Kinston, N.C., on the Neuse River.
	www.civilwarhistory.com /navy/CSSNavy.htm (4312 words)

	NORFOLK NAVAL SHIPYARD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It is expected, that he shall attend to the business of the Navy Yard in Preference to any other whatever, and shall on no account absent himself therefrom, without leave, except in case of sickness, or other unavoidable causes.
		All persons on being entered in the Navy Yard, will report their real names to the Constructor and Clerk, that they may be inserted in the roll.
		As it may happen that Workmen and others, whose residence is distant from the Yard, may have occasion to quit their Work on Saturday Afternoons at an early hour, those will have the time noticed, and when the same shall amount to a Day's Work, it will be deducted from their wages.
	www.nnsy1.navy.mil /History/RULES.HTM (658 words)

	The Mariners' Museum - Monitor: History and Legacy
		Near the city of Portsmouth, Virginia, was the Gosport Navy Yard.
		The Gosport Yard was the largest navy base in the United States.
		Located in Gosport were hundreds of cannon and tons of ammunition as well as other supplies for the United States Navy.
	www.mariner.org /monitor/10_teacher/baylink_4.html (312 words)

	Capture of Norfolk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Continuing in their countermoves against the North, the Virginians advanced on Gosport Navy Yard near Norfolk, Va. When the Union commander there, Gen. Charles S. McCauley, heard of the Virginians' impending arrival, he immediately ordered all ships to be burned or scuttled.
		One burned-out hulk, the USS Merrimack, was salvaged by the resourceful Rebels and was resurrected as the CSS Virginia, to be used against its Union makers.
		Because Union troops did not completely destroy the Gosport Navy Yard, the Confederates were able to take over more than 1,000 heavy naval guns, which they immediately distributed throughout their territory.
	www.us-civilwar.com /norfolk.htm (349 words)

	Military Images: A letter from Daniel O'Connor, USMC, reports: The North's fiasco at Norfolk Navy Yard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Like the Portsmouth Navy Yard, which is across the Piscataqua River from Portsmouth, New Hampshire in Kittery, Maine, the Norfolk Navy Yard is across the Elizabeth River from Norfolk in Portsmouth, Virginia.
		The Yard's U.S. Marines were assigned to replace the watchmen at the gates, but the number of Marines was insufficient to cover everything.
		Eight ships were in the Yard for various repairs, together with the receiving ship Pennsylvania and the steam frigate Merrimack1, which had been in drydock but was within a few days of being ready to sail.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3905/is_199811/ai_n8826446 (1117 words)

	eHistory.com - BOOKS: Battles & Leaders of the Civil War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The plan to be adopted in the arrangement of the shield for glancing shot, mounting guns arranging the hull, and plating to be in accordance with the plan submitted for the approval of the department.
		I came immediately back to the Navy Yard and commenced this great work, unassisted by mortal man so far as the plans and responsibilities of the hull and its working were concerned as an ironclad.
		Lieutenant Brooke came to the yard once while the ship was being prepared, and stated that he had tried experiments on three inches of iron and it would not stand the fire.
	ehistory.osu.edu /uscw/library/books/Battles/vol1/717.cfm (845 words)

	Dry Dock No. 1, Charlestown Navy Yard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The commissioners felt that only three yards were necessary, stating that each of them "should have attached to them a dry dock suitable for docking the largest class of ships." Of the existing yards, only that at Charlestown was proposed for improvement.
		The old wood caisson remained in the yard, and was used again when the new caisson was docked from June 25 to July 2, 1903, and again from Dec. 24 to 31 of that year.
		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)

	Norfolk Naval Shipyard
		The Gosport Shipyard was founded on November 1, 1767 by Andrew Sprowle on the western shore of the Elizabeth River.
		In 1799 the keel of the USS Chesapeake, a sister ship to the USS Constitution, was laid, making her the first ship built in Gosport for the U.S. Navy.
		Norfolk Naval Shipyard provides repair and modernization services for every type of ship that the U.S. Navy has in service, which includes amphibious vessels, submarines, guided missile cruisers, and aircraft carriers.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/norfolk_naval_shipyard (595 words)

	USN Ships--USS Pennsylvania (1837-1861)
		This largest of the U.S. Navy's sailing warships was authorized in 1816, laid down some six years later and spent a decade and a half on the shipways.
		Decommissioned after arrival at the Gosport Navy Yard, across the Elizabeth River from Norfolk, Virginia, the big ship was laid up there until 1842, when she began a long career as a receiving ship.
		On 20 April 1861, as Confederate forces threatened the Norfolk Navy Yard, USS Pennsylvania was burned to the waterline to prevent capture.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-p/penna.htm (681 words)

	USS Chesapeake (1799) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The USS Chesapeake was a 36-gun sailing frigate of the United States Navy during the Quasi-War with France and the War of 1812.
		She was launched 2 December 1799 by Gosport Navy Yard and commissioned early in the following year, Captain James Barron in command.
		One of the handful of ships retained in the Navy at the close of the war, Chesapeake was in ordinary (out of commission) at Norfolk during most of 1801, then was readied for her departure from Hampton Roads on 27 April 1802, bound for the Mediterranean as flagship for Commodore Richard V. Morris.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/U/USS-Chesapeake-(1799).htm (630 words)

	The Confederate Navy 1861-1865 (Part 1)
		The Confederate Navy's responsibility was the protection of the harbors and coast lines from blockade, and, hopefully, the establishment of a local superiority over the Federal Navy.
		However, of these 90 ships, 21 were unfit to go to sea at all, 27 were laid up in various navy yards in need of extensive repairs or not ready to be launched, and 28 were in foreign stations, some as far away as China.
		With the capitulation of the Gosport Navy Yard after the secession of Virginia, the Confederate Navy secured one of the few major navy yards it was to possess.
	www.magweb.com /sample/scamp/ca90csn1.htm (2647 words)

	Constellation Strike Group
		Her crew was awarded the Navy Unit Commendation and the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal for actions in the Gulf of Tonkin.
		Principal Navy aircraft were the A-7 and A-6, which accounted for roughly 60 and 15 percent of the Navy's attack sorties, respectively.
		In early April 2002 it was reported that the Navy was considering an option to extend the life of the Constellation beyond 2003.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/navy/batgru-64.htm (7760 words)

	Historical Manuscripts
		The fourth to Commodore Stewart at the Philadelphia Navy Yard dated 4 June 1839 regarding the Secretary of the Navy's direction to build a steamship.
		Officers of the Navy and Marine Corps who tendered their resignations during the early part of the Civil War and were dropped from the rolls.
		Smith was Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks.
	www.history.navy.mil /biblio/biblio3/biblio3e.htm (9200 words)

	Craney Island Fuel Terminal
		Craney Island Fuel Terminal is the Navy's largest fuel facility in the United States and possesses 1100 acres (4.45 E6 m2) of above- and below- ground fuel storage tanks.
		FISC Norfolk's Fuel Department operates the Navy's largest Defense Fuel Support Point (DFSP) in the continental United States and is a leader in the Navy's effort to rightsize and regionalize.
		When the Navy Yard was evacuated by the Confederate forces, the VIRGINIA was found to be too deep for navigation in the James River and to avoid capture was destroyed by her own crew off Craney Island 11 May 1862.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/facility/craney-island.htm (1550 words)

	Chronicles of the American Civil War » Blog Archive » Our Great Crisis. Official Report of Affairs at the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Secretary of the Navy despatched Commodore Paulding some days since to the Gosport Navy Yard, to inspect the movements in and about the yard.
		One or two war vessels are moored a short distance from the dock at the Navy Yard, and their guns will protect the yard.
		Five sloops are in harbor at Norfolk, with men and arms sufficient to protect and hold the Norfolk Navy Yard.
	www.pddoc.com /cw-chronicles/?p=1349 (817 words)

	War Between the States Memorabilia larger picture for UNION NAVAL LETTER, ONBOARD U.S. GUNBOAT MORSE
		Gosport Navy Yard, Jan. 9, 1863, Onboard U.S. Gunboat Morse.
		She took part in the Roanoke Island campaign, engaged enemy vessels at the capture of Elizabeth City, N.C., took part in the capture of New Bern, N.C., and served on the York, Pamunkey and Rappahannock Rivers in Virginia.
		The Gosport Navy Yard, was in Norfolk, Va., and was the home of the famous Confederate ironclad, Merrimac.
	pages.warbetweenthestates.com /517/PictPage/1922406033.html (428 words)

	BLACK WORKERS HAD KEY ROLE IN BUILDING HISTORIC DRY DOCK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It was a wise precaution since his insistence on employing fl stonecutters instead of white ones on the Gosport dock got him into hot water later with the authorities in Washington.
		Work on the Gosport dock began in November 1827, but it was not until March 1834 that it was completed, at a cost of $974,365.55.
		In 1861, when the Federal forces evacuated the navy yard, an unsuccessful attempt was made to blow it up.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1995/vp950716/07140598.htm (650 words)

	4-22-61-3rdmass (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		So we got up to the Navy Yard without any trouble, but two men-of-war had been taken by the secessionists before we got there.
		As we got close to the Navy Yard the Pennsylvania man-of-war hailed us-they only had one officer and a few men on board spiking her guns.
		Our regiment was the first called on to fight their way to that Yard, and we went.
	www.letterscivilwar.net /4-22-61-3rdmass.html (503 words)

	YARD COMMANDER POSSIBLY A `FALL GUY'
		Anxious citizens stood guard through the night, certain the entire city would be burned to the ground along with the Gosport Navy Yard that had been deliberately torched.
		Joining the Navy in January 1809 at the age of 16, he was the nephew of the Navy's most senior officer, Charles Stewart.
		On April 20, 1861, the Gosport Navy Yard was deliberately torched to
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1995/vp950514/05120245.htm (836 words)

	135ANNIV--CSS Virginia Home Page
		Captain Klemm spoke on Gosport Navy Yard at the time of the battle.
		Alan Flanders, Director of Public Affairs, US Atlantic Fleet Training Command (author of a book on the construction of the Virginia and frequent contributor of articles on the ironclads to the Virginian-Pilot), spoke about the Virginia and her crew.
		Assistant Secretary of the Navy John Douglass disembarking (10 seconds, 1.1MB).
	members.aol.com /vacsn/135anniv (971 words)

	barron letters
		Compiler's Note: The following are a handful of letters written to Capt. Samuel Barron of the Gosport Navy Yard after the loss of his wife Imogene (August 8th) and daughter Lizzie (August 17th) to yellow fever in the epidemic of 1855.
		Barron, wife of Capt. Barron at the Navy Yard, is dead and he sick at the hospital.
		Of 1700 men employed in the navy yard, only 500 remain and many of those reside in Norfolk and the surrounding country.
	www.rootsweb.com /~usgenweb/va/yellow-fever/barronletters.html (12751 words)

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