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  USS New Hampshire (BB-25) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
She was laid down 1 May 1905 by New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey; launched 30 June 1906; sponsored by Hazel E. McLane, daughter of Governor John McLane of New Hampshire; and commissioned 19 March 1908, Capt. Cameron M. Winslow in command.
New Hampshire sailed north 21 June, was overhauled at Norfolk, and exercised along the east coast and in the Caribbean until returning to Veracruz in August 1915.
New Hampshire served as flagship for the special naval force in Haitian waters from 18 October to 12 January 1921, and on 25 January sailed with the remains of Swedish Minister Wilhelm Ekerigren for Stockholm, arriving 14 February.
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 Asbestos Exposure at New York Shipbuilding in New York - Early, Ludwick, Sweeney and Strauss   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
New York Shipbuilding Company (NYS) was opened in Camden, NJ across the Delaware River from downtown Philadelphia.
The Corporation was organized in 1899 and that same year, construction began.
With these conversions, New York Ship managed a great feat by constructing in one year a number of large naval combatant ships never again accomplished by a singe shipyard in the history of shipbuilding.
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 New York Shipbuilding Corporation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The New York Shipbuilding Corporation (or New York Ship for short) was founded in 1899 and opened its first shipyard in 1900.
After World War II, New York Ship also built nuclear submarines.
New York Ship went out of business in 1967.
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 New York Shipbuilding Corp. Exhibit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Originally established in 1899, New York Ship went out of business in 1967, leaving behind a legacy of maritime accomplishment that today surprises many who are unaware that Camden was once a world-class shipbuilding power.
By the late 1930s, as war exploded across Europe and tensions increased between the U.S. and Japan, New York Ship had become one of the pre-eminent centers for the construction of battleships, aircraft carriers, seaplane tenders, battle cruisers, patrol boats, destroyers and specialized military landing craft.
New York Ship workers were prepared for Japanese or German bombing attacks on Camden.
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 USS CABOT Background   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
CVL28 U.S.S. The U.S.S. Cabot was built by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey.
Upon the return of the fleet north, Cabot was first to fire in the engagement with HMS Glasgow 6 April.
During 1942, as the final work on the new carrier was being completed at Fore River Shipyard in Massachusetts, word was received that the original carrier named Lexington (CV-2), had been sunk by the Japanese in the Battle of the Coral Sea.
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 Submarine Centennial Chronology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
This is the first new design submarine for which Electric Boat is not the lead yard.
New York Shipbuilding Corporation drops out of submarine construction while building USS Pogy (SSN-647); she is towed, to Ingalls Shipbuilding, in Pascagoula, Mississippi to be completed.
Newport News Shipbuilding is awarded a $71.9 million contract to provide design and planning yard services for Seawolf class submarines.
www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/ships/submarines/centennial/chrono.html   (3046 words)

  
 New York Ship Building   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
New York Ship Building Corporation, also known as the New York Shipyards, was located in Camden NJ, across the Delaware River from downtown Philadelphia.
Construction of the SSN-647 Pogy began at Camden, though in January 1968 the boat was towed to the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard for completion, following the cancellation of the contract with New York Shipbuilding on 05 June 1967.
Camden City, located in the southwestern section of New Jersey, is the seventh largest City in the state.
www.fas.org /man/company/shipyard/camden.htm   (246 words)

  
 NS Savannah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The next year, Congress authorized NS Savannah as a joint project of the Atomic Energy Commission, the Maritime Administration, and the Department of Commerce.
She was designed by George G. Sharp, Incorporated, of New York City.
Her keel was laid down by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation at Camden, New Jersey.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/NS_Savannah   (794 words)

  
 USS Pollack SSN 603 - History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
POLLACK was constructed by New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey.
With her new skipper embarked, she began a series of operations in the Atlantic.
There was no rest, however, as she departed New London for the Tongue of the Ocean in the Bahamas for her first SUBROC missile shot in over four years.
www.uss-pollack.org /history.html   (2705 words)

  
 USN Ships--USS Jacob Jones (Destroyer # 130) -- Construction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Jacob Jones was one of ten Wickes class "flush-deck" destroyers built by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation at Camden, New Jersey, as part of the great World War I warship construction program.
Jacob Jones was built at the New York Shipbuilding Corporation shipyard, Camden, New Jersey.
Launching, at the New York Shipbuilding Corporation shipyard, Camden, New Jersey, 20 November 1918.
www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-j/dd130-v.htm   (331 words)

  
 South Jersey Heritage - R. Craig Koedel: Chapter 15: South Jersey in the 20th Century   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Seventy years of growing industrialization, improved highways and methods of transportation, speedier communications, and technological advances of all kinds, mixed with the trauma of war, a shifting of vocational goals, and a rearranging of social and personal values have altered the complexion of most of the region.
The New Jersey Turnpike, the Garden State Parkway, the Atlantic City Expressway, and the Interstate Highways criss-cross a region that was held together by plank roads a century ago.
By contrast, in the city of Camden the New York Shipbuilding Corporation closed its shipyards in 1967.
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 Withdrawl of U.S.S. Cabot: National Historic Landmarks Program (NHL)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Cabot was built by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation and entered service in January 1944.
Throughout 1944 and 1945 she participated in raids on Truk, the Marshalls, Palau, Hollandia, and the Marianas, and in the invasions of the Philippines, Leyte, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and Wake Island.
Considered a danger to shipping traffic in the Port of New Orleans, she was moved to Texas in 1997.
www.cr.nps.gov /nhl/DOE_dedesignations/Cabot.htm   (593 words)

  
 New York Shipbuilding   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
New York Ship was founded in 1898 by Henry Morse, an early proponent of assembly-line shipbuilding.
Morse, however, died in 1903 and New York Ship was sold to American International Corporation and W.R. Grace in 1916.
It was significantly expanded during WWI, becoming the largest shipyard in the world in 1919, but struggled in the post-war years and was sold again in 1925, to the U.S. subsidiary of the Swiss engineering firm Brown Boveri.
www.coltoncompany.com /shipbldg/ussbldrs/prewwii/shipyards/newyorkship.htm   (127 words)

  
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A small shipyard was established on the East River in the 1700s that would come to be known as the New York Navy Yard.
Six hundred sixty custodians employed by the New York City Board of Education underwent examination from 1985 through 1987 for asbestos-related disease and other general medical conditions by the...
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 Free Exercise cases and marsh v alabama and gulf shipbuilding corporation and dedication of land and company-owned town ...
Free Exercise cases and marsh v alabama and gulf shipbuilding corporation and dedication of land and company-owned town and jehovah's witness
Because the Alabama legislature had made it clear that failure to depart after warning constituted a trespass, and since petitioner failed to heed a warning to desist her activity and leave, the arrest and conviction were proper.
There is a concept in property law, "dedication to public use," by which the company can open private facilities to public use but failing that dedication, the corporation was within its rights in denying her the privilege of literature distribution on company-owned property.
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 South Jersey Port Corporation
1926: Creation of the South Jersey Port District by the New Jersey State Legislature and touches off an explosion of growth that establishes the City of Camden as a world-class port.
1966: Ground is broken for a new 500-foot wharf at the Beckett Street Terminal.
1994: The 25th anniversary of the South Jersey Port Corporation culminates in the construction of a new berth at the Beckett Street Terminal and an agreement is finalized for SJPC to oversee the Port of Salem.
www.southjerseyport.com /?Type=2   (423 words)

  
 New York Shipbuilding Corporation -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
New York Shipbuilding Corporation -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
It built many of the most important (The navy of the United States of America; maintains and trains and equips combat-ready naval forces) US Navy ships during the (An honours degree of the highest class) First and (1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites) Second World Wars.
After World War II, New York Ship also built (A submarine that is propelled by nuclear power) nuclear submarines.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/N/Ne/New_York_Shipbuilding_Corporation.htm   (115 words)

  
 Chapter VIII: 120 BROADWAY, NEW YORK CITY
The American International Corporation (AIC) was organized in New York on November 22, 1915, by the J.P. Morgan interests, with major participation by Stillman's National City Bank and the Rockefeller interests.
The American International Shipbuilding Corporation was wholly owned by AIC and signed substantial contracts for war vessels with the Emergency Fleet Corporation: one contract called for fifty vessels, followed by another contract for forty vessels, followed by yet another contract for sixty cargo vessels.
Henry R. Towne was chairman of the board of directors of the Morris Plan of New York, located at 120 Broadway; his seat was later taken by Charles A. Stone of American International Corporation (120 Broadway) and of Stone and Webster (120 Broadway).
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 Encyclopedia of New Jersey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Whether you are merely perusing the pages or are researching a particular subject, the Encyclopedia of New Jersey is your definitive source for information on the Garden State, covering a broad range of subject areas.
New Jersey Coalition Against War in the Middle East v.
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
www.scc.rutgers.edu /njencyclopedia/entries.html   (321 words)

  
 USN Ships--USS Hopkins (DD-249) -- Under Construction
Laid down at the New York Shipbuilding Corporation's shipyard at Camden, New Jersey, on 30 July 1919, nearly nine months after the fighting ended, she was launched almost eleven months later, on 26 June 1920.
Stands by the ship's bow, during christening ceremonies at the New York Shipbuilding Corporation shipyard, Camden, New Jersey, on 26 June 1920.
Launching, at the New York Shipbuilding Corporation shipyard, Camden, New Jersey, on 26 June 1920.
www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-h/dd249-v.htm   (288 words)

  
 U.S.S. Independence CVL-22 History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Her keel was laid at the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey on 1 May 1941 as the AMSTERDAM (CL 59), but on 12 February 1942 her name was changed to the INDEPENDENCE (CVL 22).
She anchored in Pallikulo Bay, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides on 5 November and on 11 November, operating with the ESSEX and BUNKER HILL, hit Rabaul.
Radiological studies continued until 1951 when she was sunk off the California coast in special tests of new aerial and undersea weapons on 29 January.
www.ussindependencecv-62.org /cvl22hist.htm   (1225 words)

  
 Travelogue | May 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Under the proposal, which will require the enactment of new legislation, gift cards, gift certificates and similar instruments that remain unclaimed by the owner for more than three years would be presumed to be abandoned and would escheat to the State.
The South Jersey Tourism Corporation is a regional, non-profit, tourism-marketing organization focusing on the economic development of Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Mercer and Salem counties.
The 2004 New Jersey State Junior Lifeguard Championships is sponsored by Outback Steakhouse of Brick, Red Bull Energy Drink, Spring Water Depot, Carlisle Paddles, and 105.7 FM “The Hawk”.
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Root and peace: speech at the dinner given by the Peace Society of New York in honor of Mr.
New York shipbuilding corporation; photographic impressions of the world's largest shipyard.
New York [etc.] New York shipbuilding corporation, 1921.
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 Women's History Sources: Manuscripts: L - M (Rutgers University Librares: Special Collection and University Archives)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Author, dramatist, editor and newspaper columnist; was born in Brooklyn, New York (now part of New York City), and resided there for most of her life; from the 1880s through the early 1900s, wrote over 80 romance novels (which first appeared as installments in serial publications) featuring young women as the heroines
Among the specific events described are a visit to New York City on September 29, 1881 (during which the diarist observed newspapers being printed at the Herald and Tribune buildings), and her brother's October 1885 wedding.
In addition, two different letters from December 1944 relate Melton's concern that New York City might be within range of the rumored V-3 German rocket and provide a description of the refurbished Zeigfield Theater and its gala reopening celebration.
www.libraries.rutgers.edu /rul/libs/scua/womens_fa/wfa_l_m.shtml   (2566 words)

  
 Observation Island History 1952 - 1965
Her keel was laid on 15 September, 1952, at New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey.
On 1 March, 1961 the ship successfully launched the new A2 Polaris Missile and on 23 October supported the first successful launch of the new A2 Polaris from an FBM Submarine, the USS Ethan Allen (SSBN 608).
In January the ship returned to Norfolk Naval Shipyard for further modification in preparation for firing the new A3 Polaris and upon return to Port Canaveral in March 1962, rsumed her role as FBM submarine support ship which continued throught the summer.
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 USS PRAIRIE AD-15   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The second USS PRAIRIE, a destroyer tender, was laid down 7 December 1938 by New York Shipbuilding Corp., Camden N.J.; launched 9 December 1939; sponsored by Mrs.
She was out to sea for 37 days and for the Prairie it was a new record.
The striped jack was originally a sign to attack during the Revolutionary War, and the rattlesnake was a beloved emblem of America's early patriots.
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 Golden Days of Camden County Tugboats   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The tug Neptune on duty at the New York Shipbuilding Corporation ways on the Delaware River in 1922.
Two Pennsylvania Raiload steam tugs, the Trenton (built 1916) and the Canton (built 1906), are captured in a 1960 scene at the North American Smelting works at Fieldsboro, N.J. The facility was a major 'bone yard' where old vessels were sent to be scrapped.
In many ways, with his sketch pads, paint brushes and light table, he is once again navigating the creek out toward the Delaware and tugboating's golden age.
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 USS Dale (CG 19)
DALE was last homeported in Mayport, Fla. and has won the Atlantic Fleet Battle Efficiency E Award for 1977 and 1980.
Built at the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey, DALE was commissioned at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard on 23 November 1963.
Returning to Mayport in May 1976, DALE participated in the international Naval Review in New York Harbor celebrating the Nation's Bicentennial on July 4, 1976.
www.navysite.de /cg/cg19.htm   (733 words)

  
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