Old Navy

[Brian James]

Floating Crane YD-82 pictured at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard c 1943/44...Note the harbor ferry Nihoa (YFB-17) at right with a load of sailors in liberty whites. She was built by American Bridge Co., and delivered in July 1943. Stricken on July 4th 1995 and disposed of, sold by Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS) for reuse/conversion on December 30th 2003.

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Harbour Tug Chickasaw pictured at Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1904.

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Harbour Service Tug Alice pictured at Norfolk Navy Yard in 1900.

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USS New Mexico....USS Oklahoma...USS Nevada....1919.

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Experimental, AA-1 Class Submarine USS T-1 pictured in Dry Dock at Norfolk Navy Yard...She was laid down as USS Schley on June 21st 1916 at Fore River Shipbuilding Company Yard at Quincy, Massachusetts, by the Electric Boat Co. of New York, renamed AA-1 on August 23rd 1917 to free the name Schley for a Destroyer. AA-1 was one of three boats designed and constructed under a project charged with developing Fleet Submarines; that is, undersea boats possessing the sea-keeping qualities and endurance capability required for long-range operations, as scouts for the surface fleet. On July 17th 1920, while the Submarine was being fitted-out, the Navy adopted its modern system of alpha-numeric hull numbers, and the Fleet Submarine was designated SF-1. On September 20th, she was renamed T-1. Thus, by the time she began active service that fall, she was known as T-1 (SF-1). T-1's commissioned service lasted less than three years. She operated out of Hampton Roads, Virginia, training crews and conducting maneuvers along the east coast with other units of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet. Throughout the entire period, she remained a unit of Submarine Division 15. However, during her service, flaws in her design and construction—particularly in her propulsion plant—became apparent. On December 5th 1922, T-1 was placed out of commission and laid up at the Submarine Base, Hampton Roads, Va. Later, she was moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After almost eight years of inactivity, her name was struck from the Navy list on September 19th 1930. Her hulk was broken up, and the materials were sold for scrap on November 20th 1930.

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Dry Dock No. 2 pictured at Brooklyn Navy Yard in March 1901.

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6-masted Schooner SS Fort Laramie pictured in Port Phillip Bay in the late 1920's..The 266 ft schooner was built in 1919 at Kruse & Banks Shipbuilding Co., North Bend, Oregon for the US Shipping Board as a steam ship with a Ferris-typehull. In early 1920 she was converted to a six-masted Schooner. Fort Laramie went to the breakers in 1935.

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Dry Dock No. 4 pictured at Philadelphia Navy Yard...1970's...The German invasion of Poland put sudden steel in the spines of Navy leadership, and the necessary upgrades to turn Philadelphia into a first-class shipbuilding facility were finally funded. Concrete Dry Dock Nos. 4 and 5 were built in 1941 and 1942.

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Dry Dock No.1 pictured under construction at Pearl Harbor Navy Yard on August 1st 1918.

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Original Union Iron Works 1889 schematic for the unique Monitor USS Monterey.