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The Victory Destroyer Plant was a United States Naval Shipbuilding yard operational from 1918 to 1920 in
Quincy, Massachusetts Quincy ( ) is a coastal U.S. city in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. It is the largest city in the county and a part of Greater Boston, Metropolitan Boston as one of Boston's immediate southern suburbs. Its population in 2020 was 1 ...
. It was then reused as a civil airport, and later Naval Air Station Squantum. It was owned by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, and was constructed in order to relieve destroyer construction at the nearby Fore River Shipyard. Still later in the late 1920s it was used to build yachts by the firm Lamb & O'Connell. One of these yachts, the US10 ''Tipler III'', a 30-square-meter racing yacht, participated in the 1929 International Races sponsored by the Corinthian Yacht Club of Marblehead.


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Images of the plantImages of the yard, on History.navy.mil
{{Coord, 42, 17, 59.36, N, 71, 1, 46.38, W, display=title Shipyards of Massachusetts Buildings and structures in Quincy, Massachusetts Defunct shipbuilding companies of the United States Fore River Shipyard Bethlehem shipyards Defunct manufacturing companies based in Massachusetts 1918 establishments in Massachusetts 1920 disestablishments in Massachusetts