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Alex McDonald Shipyard
USS ''Bache'', Bethlehem Staten Island first Fletcher-class destroyer built in 1942 Bethlehem Staten Island also called Bethlehem Mariners Harbor was a large shipyard in Mariners Harbor, Staten Island, New York. The shipyard started building ships for World War II in January 1941 under the Emergency Shipbuilding Program and as the result of the Two-Ocean Navy Act of July 1940. The shipyard was part of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation which built ships for the United States Navy, and the United States Maritime Commission. Bethlehem Steel purchased the shipyard in June 1938 from United Shipyards. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation closed the shipyard in 1959. The propeller factory and foundry continued operation for 10 more years at the site. Since 1980 the site is the May Ship Repair Contracting Corporation next to Shooters Island at the southern end of Newark Bay, off the North Shore. Staten Island Shipbuilding The site started in 1903, when William Burlee built a ship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Bache (DD-470) Underway At Sea, In The 1960s
Three ships associated with the United States Navy have been named ''Bache''. * , a United States Coast and Geodetic Survey The United States Coast and Geodetic Survey (abbreviated USC&GS), known from 1807 to 1836 as the Survey of the Coast and from 1836 until 1878 as the United States Coast Survey, was the first scientific agency of the United States Government. It ... survey ship named for Alexander Dallas Bache, former Superintendent of the Coast Survey, which was assigned to temporary duty with the U.S. Navy between January and June 1898. * , a United States Coast and Geodetic Survey survey ship named for Alexander Dallas Bache, former Superintendent of the Coast Survey, which served as a patrol vessel in the U.S. Navy from 24 September 1917 to 1 April 1919 and then was returned to the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. * , named for Commander George M. Bache, a destroyer in commission from 1942 to 1968. {{DEFAULTSORT:Bache United States Navy ship names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
