Old Navy

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Browning Engineering Co 40 ton locomotive dockyard crane pictured at Norfolk Navy Yard on October 1st 1910.

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Dry Dock No 1 pictured at Norfolk Navy Yard on March 2nd 1906.

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Construction work pictured on Dry Dock No 2 at Brooklyn Navy Yard on June 6th 1900, originally a timber Dry Dock, was built in 1887 and soon encountered problems due to its poor construction quality. Dry Dock No 2 collapsed in a severe storm in July 1899 and was rebuilt in masonry and completed in 1901.

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Dry Dock No 2 pictured at Brooklyn Navy Yard in October 1899.

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Plan of Washington Navy Yard dated June 1st 1881.

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Washington Navy Yard Gun Shop pictured c1900.

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Dry Dock No 3 at Norfolk Navy Yard pictured on completion of extension work on September 15th 1911.

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Maine Class Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Ohio pictured in April 1918.

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Mississippi Class Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Idaho pictured in the Hudson River on October 3rd 1911.

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Munston Steamship Line passenger liner SS American Legion pictured at Montevideo docks c 1922.....She was launched at New York Shipbuilding Corporation Shipyards on October 11th 1919 and finally decommissioned on March 26th 1946. She was built for the United States Shipping Board (USSB), one of the planned World War I Troop Transports converted before construction into passenger and cargo vessels, the Emergency Fleet Corporation Design 1029 ships. American Legion, along with sister ship Southern Cross and the seized Norddeutscher Lloyd ships Aeolus and Huron allocated to Munson by the USSB after the war, began operating as the Pan America Line serving a New York-to-Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo, and Buenos Aires route. A little under three months after the German invasion of Poland, triggering World War II in Europe, the Maritime Commission (the successor to the USSB) transferred American Legion to the War Department on November 28th 1939 for use as a Troop Transport. On December 19th 1939, she was formally transferred, and taken to New York for rehabilitation and conversion by the Atlantic Basin Iron Works of Brooklyn, New York. She took part in the invasion of Guadalcanal and the invasion of Bougainville. She was decommissioned at Olympia, Washington on March 28th 1946 and was turned over to the War Shipping Administration for disposal. Her name was struck from the Naval Vessel Register the same day. She was ultimately sold for breaking on February 5th 1948 to Zidell Ship Dismantling Company, of Portland, Oregon.