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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 ...
United States Naval Shipbuilding Museum. / 42.244035; -70.969888. The United States Naval Shipbuilding Museum is a private non-profit museum in Quincy, Massachusetts featuring USS Salem (CA-139), a heavy cruiser docked at the former Fore River Shipyard where she was laid down in 1945. The museum was established in 1993, in response to efforts ...
The Quincy / Fore River yard was sold to General Dynamics Corporation in the mid-1960s, and closed in 1986. The Alameda Works Shipyard in California was closed by Bethlehem Steel in the early 1970s, while the San Francisco facility (former Union Iron Works ) was sold to British Aerospace in the mid-1990s and survives today as BAE Systems San ...
General Dynamics closed the shipyard in 1986. Robert Harvey, 28, an ironworker, was killed in 2008 when a portion of the huge Goliath crane being disassembled at the former shipyard broke loose ...
Numerous famous warships were built at the Fore River Shipyard. A partial list is below. The date in parentheses indicates the date the ship was commissioned by the U.S. Navy, and not the date of its launch. Aircraft carriers. 1 of 2 Lexington-class aircraft carriers. USS Lexington (CV-2) (1927) Battle of the Coral Sea
Goliath (Mangalia) Coordinates: 43.7957°N 28.5710°E. Goliath crane, January 2008. Goliath is the name of a crane that is currently located at the Mangalia shipyard in Mangalia, Romania. Formerly, it was part of the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts .
Another attraction at the park would be the bell of the USS Quincy, which was built in the Fore River Shipyard and launched June 23, 1943. The ship participated in the D-Day invasion of Normandy ...
In 1906, Electric Boat subcontracted submarine construction to the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts, to build the submarines they had designed and won contracts for. Between 1917 and 1924, the company was named Submarine Boat Corporation.