The United States Navy Yard, New York–better known as the Brooklyn Navy Yard or the New York Naval Shipyard (NYNSY)–was an American shipyard located in Brooklyn

Brooklyn

Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, with nearly 2.6 million residents, and the second-largest in area. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, which is now the most populous county in New York State and the second-most densely populated...

, 1.7 miles (2.7 km) northeast of the Battery

Battery Park

Battery Park is a 25-acre public park located at the Battery, the southern tip of Manhattan Island in New York City, facing New York Harbor. The Battery is named for artillery batteries that were positioned there in the city's early years in order to protect the settlement behind them...

 on the East River

East River

The East River is a tidal strait in New York City. It connects Upper New York Bay on its south end to Long Island Sound on its north end. It separates Long Island from the island of Manhattan and the Bronx on the North American mainland...

 in Wallabout Basin

Wallabout Bay

Wallabout Bay is small body of water in Upper New York Bay along the northwest shore of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, between the present Williamsburg and Manhattan bridges, opposite Corlear's Hook on Manhattan to the west, across the East River...

, a semicircular bend of the river across from Corlear's Hook in Manhattan

Manhattan

Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...

. It was bounded by Navy Street, Flushing

Flushing Avenue

Flushing Avenue is an approximately five mile street running through northern Brooklyn and west central Queens beginning at the termination of Nassau Street, on the northern fringe of Fort Greene, Brooklyn, and ending where it merges with Grand Avenue, in Maspeth. It divides the neighborhood of...

 and Kent Avenues, and at the height of its production of U.S. Navy warship

Warship

A warship is a ship that is built and primarily intended for combat. Warships are usually built in a completely different way from merchant ships. As well as being armed, warships are designed to withstand damage and are usually faster and more maneuvrable than merchant ships...

s it covered over 200 acre (0.809372 km²).

Navy

Following the American Revolution

American Revolution

The American Revolution was the political upheaval during the last half of the 18th century in which thirteen colonies in North America joined together to break free from the British Empire, combining to become the United States of America...

, the waterfront site was used to build merchant vessels. Federal authorities purchased the old docks and 40 acres (161,874.4 m²) of land for forty thousand dollars in 1801, and the property became an active U.S. Navy shipyard

Shipyard

Shipyards and dockyards are places which repair and build ships. These can be yachts, military vessels, cruise liners or other cargo or passenger ships. Dockyards are sometimes more associated with maintenance and basing activities than shipyards, which are sometimes associated more with initial...

 five years later, in 1806. The offices, store-houses and barracks

Barracks

Barracks are specialised buildings for permanent military accommodation; the word may apply to separate housing blocks or to complete complexes. Their main object is to separate soldiers from the civilian population and reinforce discipline, training and esprit de corps. They were sometimes called...

 were constructed of handmade bricks, and the yard's oldest structure (located in Vinegar Hill

Vinegar Hill, Brooklyn

Vinegar Hill is a neighborhood in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City on the East River waterfront between DUMBO and the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The neighborhood is served by Brooklyn Community Board 2. The neighborhood is served by the NYPD's 84th Precinct....

), the 1807 federal style commandant's house, was designed by Charles Bulfinch

Charles Bulfinch

Charles Bulfinch was an early American architect, and has been regarded by many as the first native-born American to practice architecture as a profession....

, architect of the United States Capitol

United States Capitol

The United States Capitol is the meeting place of the United States Congress, the legislature of the federal government of the United States. Located in Washington, D.C., it sits atop Capitol Hill at the eastern end of the National Mall...

 in Washington, D.C.. Many officers were housed in Admiral's Row

Admiral's Row

Admiral's Row is a row of Second Empire style homes formerly used by naval officers in the New York City borough of Brooklyn at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and owned by the National Guard. Some of the homes date back to the Civil War. U.S. Navy closed the original Navy Yard in the mid-1960s, it...

.

Military chain of command

Chain of Command

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 was strictly observed. During the yard's construction of Robert Fulton

Robert Fulton

Robert Fulton was an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the first commercially successful steamboat...

's steam frigate

Frigate

A frigate is any of several types of warship, the term having been used for ships of various sizes and roles over the last few centuries.In the 17th century, the term was used for any warship built for speed and maneuverability, the description often used being "frigate-built"...

, Fulton, launched in 1815, the year of Fulton's death, the Navy Yard's chief officers were listed as follows: Captain Commandant, Master Commandant, Lieutenant of the Yard, Master of the Yard, Surgeon

Surgeon

In medicine, a surgeon is a specialist in surgery. Surgery is a broad category of invasive medical treatment that involves the cutting of a body, whether human or animal, for a specific reason such as the removal of diseased tissue or to repair a tear or breakage...

 of the Yard & Marine Barracks

Barracks

Barracks are specialised buildings for permanent military accommodation; the word may apply to separate housing blocks or to complete complexes. Their main object is to separate soldiers from the civilian population and reinforce discipline, training and esprit de corps. They were sometimes called...

, Purser

Purser

The purser joined the warrant officer ranks of the Royal Navy in the early fourteenth century and existed as a Naval rank until 1852. The development of the warrant officer system began in 1040 when five English ports began furnishing warships to King Edward the Confessor in exchange for certain...

 of the Navy Yard, Naval Storekeeper

Storekeeper

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, Naval Constructor, and a major commanding the Marine Corps

Marine corps

A marine is a member of a force that specializes in expeditionary operations such as amphibious assault and occupation. The marines traditionally have strong links with the country's navy...

 detachment.

The nation's first ironclad ship, Monitor

USS Monitor

USS Monitor was the first ironclad warship commissioned by the United States Navy during the American Civil War. She is most famous for her participation in the Battle of Hampton Roads on March 9, 1862, the first-ever battle fought between two ironclads...

, was fitted with its revolutionary iron cladding at the Continental Iron Works in nearby Greenpoint

Greenpoint, Brooklyn

Greenpoint is the northernmost neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is bordered on the southwest by Williamsburg at the Bushwick inlet, on the southeast by the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and East Williamsburg, on the north by Newtown Creek and Long Island City, Queens at the...

. By the American Civil War

American Civil War

The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...

, the yard had expanded to employ about 6000 men. In 1890, the ill-fated Maine

USS Maine (ACR-1)

USS Maine was the United States Navy's second commissioned pre-dreadnought battleship, although she was originally classified as an armored cruiser. She is best known for her catastrophic loss in Havana harbor. Maine had been sent to Havana, Cuba to protect U.S. interests during the Cuban revolt...

 was launched

Ship naming and launching

The ceremonies involved in naming and launching naval ships are based in traditions thousands of years old.-Methods of launch:There are three principal methods of conveying a new ship from building site to water, only two of which are called "launching." The oldest, most familiar, and most widely...

 from the Yard's ways.

On the eve of World War II, the yard contained more than five miles (8 km) of paved streets, four drydocks ranging in length from 326 to 700 feet (99 to 213 meters), two steel shipways, and six pontoons and cylindrical floats for salvage work, barracks for marines, a power plant, a large radio station, and a railroad spur, as well as the expected foundries, machine shops, and warehouses. In 1937 the battleship

Battleship

A battleship is a large armored warship with a main battery consisting of heavy caliber guns. Battleships were larger, better armed and armored than cruisers and destroyers. As the largest armed ships in a fleet, battleships were used to attain command of the sea and represented the apex of a...

 North Carolina

USS North Carolina (BB-55)

USS North Carolina was the lead ship of her class of battleship and the fourth in the United States Navy to be named in honor of this U.S. state. She was the first new-construction U.S. battleship to enter service during World War II, participating in every major naval offensive in the Pacific...

 was laid down. In 1938, the yard employed about ten thousand men, of whom one-third were Works Progress Administration

Works Progress Administration

The Works Progress Administration was the largest and most ambitious New Deal agency, employing millions of unskilled workers to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads, and operated large arts, drama, media, and literacy projects...

 (WPA) workers. The battleship Iowa

USS Iowa (BB-61)

USS Iowa was the lead ship of her class of battleship and the fourth in the United States Navy to be named in honor of the 29th state...

 was completed in 1942 followed by the Missouri

USS Missouri (BB-63)

|USS Missouri is a United States Navy Iowa-class battleship, and was the fourth ship of the U.S. Navy to be named in honor of the U.S. state of Missouri...

 which became the site of the Surrender of Japan

Surrender of Japan

The surrender of Japan in 1945 brought hostilities of World War II to a close. By the end of July 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy was incapable of conducting operations and an Allied invasion of Japan was imminent...

 2 September 1945. On 12 January 1953, test operations began on Antietam

USS Antietam (CV-36)

USS Antietam was one of 24 s built during and shortly after World War II for the United States Navy. The ship was the second US Navy ship to bear the name, and was named for the American Civil War Battle of Antietam . Antietam was commissioned in January 1945, too late to actively serve in World...

, which emerged in December 1952 from the yard as America's first angled-deck aircraft carrier

Aircraft carrier

An aircraft carrier is a warship designed with a primary mission of deploying and recovering aircraft, acting as a seagoing airbase. Aircraft carriers thus allow a naval force to project air power worldwide without having to depend on local bases for staging aircraft operations...

.

The US Navy took possession of PT 109

Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109

PT-109 was a PT boat last commanded by Lieutenant, junior grade John F. Kennedy in the Pacific Theater during World War II...

 on 10 July 1942, and the boat was delivered to the Brooklyn Navy Yard for fitting. This boat was sunk in the Pacific in August 1943 and became famous years later when its young commander, Lt. John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....

, entered politics.

At its peak, during World War II, the yard employed 70,000 people, 24 hours a day.

During World War II, the pedestrian walkways on the Williamsburg

Williamsburg Bridge

The Williamsburg Bridge is a suspension bridge in New York City across the East River connecting the Lower East Side of Manhattan at Delancey Street with the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn at Broadway near the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway...

 and Manhattan Bridge

Manhattan Bridge

The Manhattan Bridge is a suspension bridge that crosses the East River in New York City, connecting Lower Manhattan with Brooklyn . It was the last of the three suspension bridges built across the lower East River, following the Brooklyn and the Williamsburg bridges...

s spanning the East River offered a good overhead view of the navy yard, and were therefore encased in order to prevent espionage.

Commercial

About two years before the shipyard closed word spread the yard was going to be closed. Professor Seymour Melmen an Engineering Economist of Columbia Graduate School Of Engineering looked into the plight of the shipyard workers at the N.Y.N.S. and came up with a detailed plan for converting the then New York Naval Ship Yard into a commercial shipyard which would have saved most of the skilled shipyard jobs. The plan was never put in place. The Wagner Administration looked to the auto industry to build a car plant inside the Yard. None of the U.S. car manufacturers were interested, the foreign car manufactures claimed with the conversion of the dollar it was too expensive.The navy decommissioned the yard in 1966, the Johnson Administration refused to sell the yard to the City of New York for 18 months. When the new Nixon Administration came into power they signed the papers to sell the yard to the city. Leases were signed inside the yard even before the sale of the yard to the City was signed.

In 1967 Seatrain Shipbuilding which was wholly owned by Seatrain Lines

Seatrain Lines

Seatrain Lines was a shipping company most responsible for the introduction of the standard international intermodal container, most commonly high by 8 feet wide by long...

 signed a lease with the Commerce Labor Industry Corporation of Kings (CLICK) which was established as a non-profit body to run the yard for the city. CLICK's lease with the newly formed Seatrain Shipbuilding was not very business friendly. Seatrain planned to build five VLCC's and seven container ships for Seatrain Lines. It eventually built 4 VLCCs (the largest ships ever to be built in the Brooklyn Navy Yard), 8 barges and one ice-breaker barge. The last ship to be built in the Brooklyn Navy Yard was the VLCC the Bay Ridge built by Seatrain Shipbuilding. In 1977 the Bay Ridge was converted from a VLCC to a FPSOV [Floating Production Storage Offtake Vessel]. The Bay Ridge was renamed Kuito and is operating for Chevron off of the Coast of Angola in 400 meters of water in the Kuito oil field.
1976 would bring peak employment inside the yard with employment reaching nearly 6,000 workers with Seatrain Shipbuilding and Coastal Dry Dock & Repair accounting for 80% of the employment.
In 1979 Seatrain Lines closed its gates ending the history of Brooklyn shipbuilding. In 1972 Coastal Dry Dock & Repair Corp leased the three small dry docks and several buildings inside the yard from CLICK. Coastal Drydock only repaired and converted US Navy vessels but closed in 1987. CLICK was replaced a few years before Coastal going under with the [non-profit] Brooklyn Development Corporation. In 1987 the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation for the City of New York. It failed in all its attempts to lease any of the six dry docks and buildings to any shipbuilding or ship-repair company.

The yard became an area of private manufacturing and commercial activity. Today it has over 200 tenants with more than 3,500 employees. The Yard has three piers and a total of 10 berths ranging from 350 to 890 feet (271.3 m) long, with ten-foot deck height and 25 to 40 feet (7 to 12 meters) of depth alongside. The drydocks are now operated by GMD Shipyard Corp. A federal project maintains a channel depth of 35 feet (10 m) from Throggs Neck to the yard, about two miles (3 km) from the western entrance, and thence 40 feet (12 m) of depth to the deep water in the Upper Bay. Currents

Current (stream)

A current, in a river or stream, is the flow of water influenced by gravity as the water moves downhill to reduce its potential energy. The current varies spatially as well as temporally within the stream, dependent upon the flow volume of water, stream gradient, and channel geometrics...

 in the East River can be strong, and congestion

Traffic congestion

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 heavy. Access to the pier

Pier

A pier is a raised structure, including bridge and building supports and walkways, over water, typically supported by widely spread piles or pillars...

s requires passage under the Manhattan Bridge

Manhattan Bridge

The Manhattan Bridge is a suspension bridge that crosses the East River in New York City, connecting Lower Manhattan with Brooklyn . It was the last of the three suspension bridges built across the lower East River, following the Brooklyn and the Williamsburg bridges...

 (a suspension

Suspension bridge

A suspension bridge is a type of bridge in which the deck is hung below suspension cables on vertical suspenders. Outside Tibet and Bhutan, where the first examples of this type of bridge were built in the 15th century, this type of bridge dates from the early 19th century...

 span with a clearance of 134 feet (40.8 m) and the Brooklyn Bridge

Brooklyn Bridge

The Brooklyn Bridge is one of the oldest suspension bridges in the United States. Completed in 1883, it connects the New York City boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn by spanning the East River...

 (a suspension span with a clearance of 127 feet (38.7 m).

Quarters A

Quarters A, Brooklyn Navy Yard

Quarters A, Brooklyn Navy Yard was the residence of the commander of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. It was home to Commodore Matthew C. Perry at the time of his opening of Japan...

, the commander's quarters building, is a National Historic Landmark

National Historic Landmark

A National Historic Landmark is a building, site, structure, object, or district, that is officially recognized by the United States government for its historical significance...

. The Navy Yard Hospital Building (R95) and Surgeon's Residence (R1) are both designated as NYC Landmark buildings. A report commissioned by the National Guard suggests that the entirety of the Admiral's Row

Admiral's Row

Admiral's Row is a row of Second Empire style homes formerly used by naval officers in the New York City borough of Brooklyn at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and owned by the National Guard. Some of the homes date back to the Civil War. U.S. Navy closed the original Navy Yard in the mid-1960s, it...

 property meets the eligibility criteria for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...

.

Commandants (1806–1945)

1. Lieutenant Jonathan Thorn
   Jonathan Thorn
   Jonathan Thorn was an officer of the United States Navy in the early 19th century. He was born on 8 January 1779 at Schenectady, N.Y.. He was appointed a midshipman on 28 April 1800...
   
   , 1 June 1806 – 13 July 1807
2. Captain Isaac Chauncey
   Isaac Chauncey
   Isaac Chauncey was an officer in the United States Navy.-Biography:Chauncey, born in Black Rock, Connecticut, 20 February 1779, was appointed a Lieutenant in the Navy from 17 September 1798...
   
   , 13 July 1807 – 16 May 1813
3. Captain Samuel Evans, 16 May 1813 – 2 June 1824
4. Commander George W. Rodgers, 2 June 1824 – 21 December 1824
5. Captain Isaac Chauncey
   Isaac Chauncey
   Isaac Chauncey was an officer in the United States Navy.-Biography:Chauncey, born in Black Rock, Connecticut, 20 February 1779, was appointed a Lieutenant in the Navy from 17 September 1798...
   
   , 21 December 1824 – 10 June 1833
6. Captain Charles G. Ridgeley
   Charles G. Ridgeley
   Charles Goodwin Ridgeley was an officer in the United States Navy.Ridgeley was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He served with Edward Preble during the First Barbary War. He was promoted to captain on 28 February 1815 and placed in command of Erie. He commanded the Brazil Station from 1840 to 1842....
   
   , 10 June 1833 – 19 November 1839
7. Captain James Renshaw, 19 November 1839 – 12 June 1841
8. Captain Matthew C. Perry, 12 June 1841 – 15 July 1843
9. Captain Silas H. Stringham, 15 July 1843 – 1 October 1846
10. Captain Isaac McKeever, 1 October 1846 – 1 October 1849
11. Captain William D. Salter, 1 October 1849 – 14 October 1852
12. Captain Charles Boardman, 14 October 1852 – 1 October 1855
13. Captain Abraham Bigelow, 1 October 1855 – 8 June 1857
14. Captain Lawrence Kearny
    Lawrence Kearny
    Commodore Lawrence Kearny was an officer in the United States Navy during the early nineteenth century. In the early 1840s he began negotiations with China which opened that country to U.S. trade and pointed the way toward the American Open Door Policy a half century later...
    
    , 8 June 1857 – 1 November 1858
15. Captain Samuel L. Breese
    Samuel Livingston Breese
    Samuel Livingston Breese was a Rear Admiral in the United States Navy. His active-duty career included service in the War of 1812, the Mexican–American War, and the American Civil War.-Early life and career:...
    
    , 1 November 1858 – 25 October 1861
16. Captain Hiram Paulding
    Hiram Paulding
    Hiram Paulding was a Rear Admiral in the United States Navy, who served from the War of 1812 until after the Civil War.-Naval career:...
    
    , 25 October 1861 – 1 May 1865
17. Commodore Charles H. Bell
    Charles H. Bell (naval officer)
    Rear Admiral Charles H. Bell was an officer in the United States Navy who served during the War of 1812, the Second Barbary War, and the American Civil War....
    
    , 1 May 1865 – 1 May 1868
18. Rear Admiral Sylvanus W. Godon
    Sylvanus William Godon
    Sylvanus William Godon was an American naval officer who served in the Mexican–American and American Civil Wars.-Biography:...
    
    , 1 May 1868 – 15 October 1870
19. Rear Admiral Melancton Smith, 15 October 1870 – 1 June 1872
20. Vice Admiral Stephen Clegg Rowan
    Stephen Clegg Rowan
    Stephen Clegg Rowan was a Vice Admiral in the United States Navy, who served during the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War.-Biography:...
    
    , 1 June 1872 – 1 September 1876
21. Commodore James W. Nicholson
    James W. Nicholson
    Rear Admiral James William Augustus Nicholson was an officer in the United States Navy during the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War.-Biography:...
    
    , 1 September 1876 – 1 May 1880
22. Commodore George H. Cooper, 1 May 1880 – 1 April 1882
23. Commodore John H. Upshur
    John Henry Upshur
    John Henry Upshur was an admiral in the United States Navy who served during the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War.-Early life:...
    
    , 1 April 1882 – 31 March 1884
24. Commodore Thomas S. Fillebrown, 31 March 1884 – 31 December 1884
25. Commodore Ralph Chandler
    Ralph Chandler
    Ralph Chandler was a Rear Admiral of the United States Navy. He saw action during the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War, and later served as Commander of the Asiatic Squadron.-Biography:...
    
    , 31 December 1884 – 15 October 1886
26. Commodore Bancroft Gherardi
    Bancroft Gherardi
    Bancroft Gherardi was a rear admiral of the United States Navy, who served during the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War.-Biography:...
    
    , 15 October 1886 – 15 February 1889
27. Captain Francis M. Ramsay
    Francis Munroe Ramsay
    Admiral Francis Munroe Ramsay was an officer in the United States Navy who distinguished himself in the American Civil War, and who later served as Chief of the Navy's Bureau of Navigation.-Early life and career:...
    
    , 15 February 1889 – 14 November 1889
28. Rear Admiral Daniel L. Braine
    Daniel L. Braine
    Daniel Lawrence Braine was an admiral of the United States Navy in the 19th century.-Biography:Born in New York City on 18 May 1829, Braine was appointed Midshipman in 1846. He served on the and the during the Mexican-American War...
    
    , 14 November 1889 – 20 May 1891
29. Commodore Henry Erben
    Henry Erben
    Henry Erben was a rear admiral of the United States Navy, who served in the American Civil War and the Spanish–American War.-Biography:...
    
    , 20 May 1891 – 1 June 1893
30. Rear Admiral Bancroft Gherardi
    Bancroft Gherardi
    Bancroft Gherardi was a rear admiral of the United States Navy, who served during the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War.-Biography:...
    
    , 1 June 1893 – 22 November 1894
31. Commodore Montgomery Sicard
    Montgomery Sicard
    Rear Admiral Montgomery Sicard was an officer in the United States Navy during the American Civil War.-Biography:...
    
    , 22 November 1894 – 1 May 1897
32. Commodore Francis M. Bunce
    Francis M. Bunce
    Francis M. Bunce was a rear admiral of the United States Navy who distinguished himself during the Civil War. He was in command of the North Atlantic Squadron until 1897. He died of throat cancer-References:...
    
    , 1 May 1897 – 14 January 1899
33. Commodore John Woodward Philip
    John Woodward Philip
    John Woodward Philip was an officer in the United States Navy during the Civil War and Spanish–American War.-Biography:...
    
    , 14 January 1899 – 17 July 1900
34. Rear Admiral Albert S. Barker
    Albert S. Barker
    Albert Smith Barker was an admiral in the United States Navy who served during the American Civil War and the Spanish-American War.-Biography:...
    
    , 17 July 1900 – 1 April 1903
35. Rear Admiral Frederick Rodgers, 1 April 1903 – 3 October 1904
36. Rear Admiral Joseph B. Coghlan, 3 October 1904 – 1 June 1907
37. Rear Admiral Casper F. Goodrich, 1 June 1907 – 15 May 1909
38. Captain Joseph B. Murdock, 15 May 1909 – 21 March 1910
39. Rear Admiral Eugene H. C. Leutze
    Eugene H. C. Leutze
    Eugene Henry Cozzens Leutze was an admiral of the United States Navy.-Biography:He was born on November 16, 1847 to Emanuel Leutze in Düsseldorf, Prussia...
    
    , 21 March 1910 – 6 June 1912
40. Captain Albert Gleaves
    Albert Gleaves
    Albert Gleaves was an admiral in the United States Navy, also notable as a naval historian.-Biography:...
    
    , 6 June 1912 – 28 September 1914
41. Rear Admiral N. R. Usher, 28 September 1914 – 25 February 1918
42. Rear Admiral John D. MacDonald
    John D. MacDonald
    John Dann MacDonald was an American crime and suspense novelist and short story writer.MacDonald was a prolific author of crime and suspense novels, many of them set in his adopted home of Florida...
    
    , 28 September 1914 – 1 July 1921
43. Rear Admiral Carl T. Vogelgesang
    Carl Theodore Vogelgesang
    Carl Theodore Vogelgesang was a United States Navy rear admiral and Navy Cross recipient. He was the first U.S...
    
    , 1 July 1921 – 27 November 1922
44. Rear Admiral Charles P. Plunkett
    Charles Peshall Plunkett
    Rear Admiral Charles Peshall Plunkett, was an officer of the United States Navy who served in the Spanish-American War and World War I.-Biography:...
    
    , 27 November 1922 – 16 February 1928
45. Captain Frank Lyon, 16 February 1928 – 2 July 1928
46. Rear Admiral Louis R. de Steiguer
    Louis R. de Steiguer
    Admiral Louis Rodolph de Steiguer was an officer in the U.S. Navy. He was Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Battle Fleet from 1927 to 1928.-Early career:...
    
    , 2 July 1928 – 18 March 1931
47. Rear Admiral , 18 March 1931 – 30 June 1933
48. Rear Admiral Yates Stirling, Jr., 30 June 1933 – 9 March 1936
49. Captain Frederick L. Oliver, 9 March 1936 – 20 April 1936
50. Rear Admiral Harris L. Laning, 20 April 1936 – 24 September 1937
51. Rear Admiral Clark H. Woodward
    Clark H. Woodward
    Clark Howell Woodward served the United States Navy in five wars: the Spanish-American War, Philippine-American War, the Chinese Boxer Rebellion, and both World Wars. A staunch promoter of an advanced U.S. Navy, he influenced priorities and policies concerning the upgrading and construction of...
    
    , 1 October 1937 – 1 March 1941
52. Rear Admiral Edward J. Marquart, 2 June 1941 – 2 June 1943
53. Rear Admiral Monroe R. Kelly, 2 June 1943 – 5 December 1944
54. Rear Admiral Freeland A. Daubin, 5 December 1944 – 25 November 1945

Popular culture

The New York Naval Shipyards appear in the video game Tom Clancy's EndWar

Tom Clancy's EndWar

Tom Clancy's EndWar is a real-time tactics game designed by Ubisoft Shanghai for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Windows platforms. The Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable versions feature turn-based tactics instead of the real-time tactics of their console counterparts...

as a possible battlefield. In the game, the Shipyards are constructing a new aircraft carrier

Aircraft carrier

An aircraft carrier is a warship designed with a primary mission of deploying and recovering aircraft, acting as a seagoing airbase. Aircraft carriers thus allow a naval force to project air power worldwide without having to depend on local bases for staging aircraft operations...

 called the USS Reagan

Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....

.

The Shipyards also appear in Ion Storm

Ion storm

Ion storm may refer to:* Ion Storm, a defunct games software company.* An interplanetary coronal mass ejection , a disruption of the fast and slow solar winds, often called "ion storm", "solar storm" or "space storm"...

 and Eidos Interactive

Eidos Interactive

Eidos Interactive Ltd. is a British video game publisher and is a label of Square Enix Europe. As an independent company Eidos plc was headquartered in the Wimbledon Bridge House in Wimbledon, London Borough of Merton....

's 2000 game Deus Ex

Deus Ex

Deus Ex is an action role-playing game developed by Ion Storm Inc. and published by Eidos Interactive in 2000, which combines gameplay elements of first-person shooters with those of role-playing video games...

as a playable level in which the protagonist must scuttle a freighter docked at the base.

External links

• The Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation Official website
• Dry Dock #1, Brooklyn Navy Yard 2009 City Noise photo essay
• Ships Constructed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard a Columbia University list
• Inside Brooklyn Navy Yard 2009 video essay by The City Concealed
• Brooklyn Steel-Blood Tenacity 2007 Autobiography by Frank J. Trezza
• "Case Study of Seatrain Shipbuilding & Brooklyn Navy Yard" 2010 by Frank J. Trezza