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Fore River Shipyard was a shipyard owned by General Dynamics Corporation located on Weymouth Fore River in Braintree and Quincy, Massachusetts. It began operations in 1883 in Braintree, and moved to its final location on Quincy Point in 1901. In 1913, it was purchased by Bethlehem Steel, and later transferred to Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation.
Fore River (Massachusetts) Coordinates: 42°14′12″N 70°57′36″W. Map of the Weymouth watershed. Weymouth Fore River is a small bay or estuary in eastern Massachusetts and is part of the Massachusetts Bay watershed . The headwater of Weymouth Fore River is formed by the confluence of the Monatiquot River and Smelt Brook in the Weymouth ...
Fore River Shipyard built 19 of the 31 "Holland type" United States S-class submarines. ARA Rivadavia. USS S-1 (1918) USS S-18 (1918) 8 World War II Pacific patrols; USS S-19 (1920) USS S-20 (1920) USS S-21 (1920) USS S-22 (1920) USS S-23 (1920) 7 World War II Pacific patrols
Woods Hole is located at the southwestern tip of the town of Falmouth (and of Cape Cod) at (41.526730, -70.663184 The term "Woods Hole" refers to a strait named Woods Hole, which separates Cape Cod from the Elizabeth Islands (specifically, Uncatena Island and Nonamesset Island) and which boats, yachts, and small ferries can use to travel between Vineyard Sound and Buzzards Bay.
The Cape Cod Canal is an artificial waterway in Massachusetts connecting Cape Cod Bay in the north to Buzzards Bay in the south, and is part of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway. The approximately 7.4-mile-long (11.9 km) canal traverses the neck of land joining Cape Cod to the state's mainland. It mostly follows tidal rivers widened to 480 ...
A U.S. Coast Guard boat steams past in 2021 as workers prepare to deploy a tidal turbine onto a lift arm on a platform just west of the railroad bridge on the Cape Cod Canal in Buzzards Bay.
508/774. FIPS code. 25-82595. GNIS feature ID. 0615805. Yarmouth Port is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Yarmouth in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 5,320 at the 2010 census. [2] Yarmouth Port was home to the original Christmas Tree Shops until its closing in 2007.
The Fore River Railroad ( reporting mark FRVT) is a class III railroad [1] in eastern Massachusetts owned by the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) and operated by the Fore River Transportation Corporation. It was originally built in 1902 and opened in 1903 as a rail link between the Fore River Shipyard at Quincy Point and the New ...