Charlestown Navy Yard, Boston National Historical Park, Massachusetts
by United States. National Park Service
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About this eBook
- Author
- United States. National Park Service
- Title
- Charlestown Navy Yard: Boston National Historical Park, Massachusetts
- Credits
- Produced by Stephen Hutcheson, MFR and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- VA: Naval science: Navies: Organization, distribution, naval situation
- Subject
- Charlestown Navy Yard (Mass.) -- History
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 55010
- Release Date
- June 30, 2017
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Charlestown Navy Yard
- 2.Contents
- 3.Part 1 The Making of a Navy — Prologue — Growth of the Yard — Navy Yard Tradesmen in the Age of Sail — The Ropewalk — Building a Wooden Ship — The Frigate Constitution — The Coming of Iron and Steam — Steam Propulsion — The Yard’s First Dry Dock — Ironclad Technology — The New Navy — Building a Steel Ship — Chain for the Navy — The Yard Transformed — Mainstays of the Yard: Warship Overhaul and Repair — Women in the Workforce — Ships for World War II — New Careers for Old Ships
- 4.Part 2 Visiting Charlestown Navy Yard — The Yard Today — The Ships at Charlestown — The Exhibits — Index
- 5.National Park Service
- 6.U.S. Department of the Interior
- 7.Transcriber’s Notes
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