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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. CHARVC_190810_002.JPG: Proudly They Served USS Mason in a Segregated Navy
2. CHARVC_190810_005.JPG: Training
3. CHARVC_190810_008.JPG: Convoy Escort Duty
4. CHARVC_190810_013.JPG: Recognition
5. CHARVC_190810_022.JPG: Designed and built by LEGOLAND Discovery Center Boston's Master Model Builder, Megan Amaral.
6. CHARVC_190810_031.JPG: Serving the Naval Fleet
7. CHARVC_190810_037.JPG: Protecting American Interests
8. CHARVC_190810_040.JPG: A Site Rich in History
9. CHARVC_190810_042.JPG: SWONS The Shipbuilding Women of the Navy, Boston Naval Shipyard, 1941-1945 The United States at War: A Call to Action
10. CHARVC_190810_048.JPG: SWONS The Shipbuilding Women of the Navy, Boston Naval Shipyard, 1941-1945 The Boston Navy Yard & World War II
11. CHARVC_190810_053.JPG: SWONS The Shipbuilding Women of the Navy, Boston Naval Shipyard, 1941-1945 Women Enter the Navy Yard
12. CHARVC_190810_057.JPG: SWONS The Shipbuilding Women of the Navy, Boston Naval Shipyard, 1941-1945 Mobilizing a Nation
13. CHARVC_190810_063.JPG: SWONS The Shipbuilding Women of the Navy, Boston Naval Shipyard, 1941-1945 The Realities of Navy Yard Work
14. CHARVC_190810_067.JPG: SWONS The Shipbuilding Women of the Navy, Boston Naval Shipyard, 1941-1945 Good Times, Tragedies, and Victory
15. CHARVC_190810_074.JPG: SWONS The Shipbuilding Women of the Navy, Boston Naval Shipyard, 1941-1945 Doing their Bit, at Work and at Home
16. CHARVC_190810_080.JPG: SWONS The Shipbuilding Women of the Navy, Boston Naval Shipyard, 1941-1945 Red Leave, Black Leave, and the Last Leave
17. CHARVC_190810_094.JPG: Physical Plant
18. CHARVC_190810_100.JPG: Ropewalk
19. CHARVC_190810_116.JPG: Rope Manufacturing Process
20. CHARVC_190810_129.JPG: The 19th Century "The naval history of Boston... demonstrates the growth and development of a great naval establishment for the building and repair of the ship of the United States." -- Rear Admiral George Henry Preble, USN, 1883
21. CHARVC_190810_131.JPG: Shipyard Trades
22. CHARVC_190810_147.JPG: Officers and Gentlemen
23. CHARVC_190810_150.JPG: Officers and Gentlemen
24. CHARVC_190810_166.JPG: From Wood and Sail to Steel and Steam
25. CHARVC_190810_175.JPG: Preparing for New Technology
26. CHARVC_190810_183.JPG: The Yard in the Civil War
27. CHARVC_190810_187.JPG: Dry Dock Operation
28. CHARVC_190810_192.JPG: The 20th Century "The Boston Naval Shipyard and its officers and employees play a large and sustaining role in the service of the Navy and of the nation." -- U.S. Representative John W. McCormack, 1950
29. CHARVC_190810_195.JPG: Ships and Shipbuilding
30. CHARVC_190810_197.JPG: The "Modern" Navy Yard, 1890-1974
31. CHARVC_190810_201.JPG: Ships and Shipbuilding
32. CHARVC_190810_216.JPG: Chain Forge and Foundry
33. CHARVC_190810_219.JPG: Chain Forge and Foundry
34. CHARVC_190810_229.JPG: Technologies of Transformation
35. CHARVC_190810_235.JPG: William Draper Blacksmith Shop, Boston Navy Yard, 1942
36. CHARVC_190810_247.JPG: World War I and World War II
37. CHARVC_190810_256.JPG: The Cold War Era, 1945-1974
38. CHARVC_190810_260.JPG: Shipyard Workers, 1890-1974
39. CHARVC_190810_267.JPG: Rotted Timber from USS Constitution One of the most common repairs to USS Constitution through the years involved replacing rotted planking and timbers.
40. CHARVC_190810_270.JPG: USS Constitution
41. CHARVC_190810_275.JPG: Closure and Preservation
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Wikipedia Description: Charleston Naval Shipyard
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Charleston Naval Shipyard (formerly known as the Charleston Navy Yard) was a U.S. Navy ship building and repair facility located along the west bank of the Cooper River, in North Charleston, South Carolina and part of Naval Base Charleston. It began operations in 1901 as a drydock, and continued as a navy facility until 1996 when it was leased to Detyens Shipyards, Inc. during down-sizing.

The yard first produced the destroyer USS Tillman (DD-135), then began to increase production in the 1930s. A total of 21 destroyers were assembled at the naval facility.

In 1931, Ellicott Dredges delivered the 20-inch cutter dredge ORION still in operation at the old Charleston Naval Shipyard.

"Two of the largest vessels ever built at the yard were two destroyer tenders, the Tidewater (AD-31) and the Bryce Canyon (AD-36). The Keels of these ships were laid in November 1944 and July 1945, respectively. Peak employment of 25,948 was reached in July 1943.

After the war, the shipyard was responsible for the repairs and alterations of captured German submarines. In April 1948 Secretary of the Navy John L. Sullivan told Charleston's Representative Rivers and Senator Burnet R. Maybank that the Navy planned for CNSY to become a submarine overhaul yard and would ask for an initial appropriation for a battery-charging unit.

The first submarine, the Conger (SS-477), arrived for overhaul in August 1948. the shipyard expected to overhaul about 132 ships during the year, and its work force had stabilized to nearly 5,000 persons.

North Korean invasion of South Korea in June 1950 increased production once again. By 1951 the shipyard was back to over 8,000 employees. In all, the shipyard activated forty-four vessels and converted twenty-seven for active fleet duty during the Korean War.

Submarines continued to be built into the 1960s along with missiles, and nuclear submarine overhauls took place like with the Scorpion (SSN-589) in 1962. In 1966 the shipyard completed the first refueling of a nuclear submarine (the Skipjack, SSN-585), and began its first overhaul of an FBM submarine (the Thomas A. Edison, SSBN-610). Work began on deepening Dry Dock No.2 so it could handle the massive FBM submarines and destroyers fitted with sonar."

Today, a 340-acre (1.4 km2) section of the former base is being revitalized as a sustainable, mixed-use urban hub for the city of North Charleston, SC. The new development is called The Navy Yard at Noisette. Ground broke in 2005.
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