CIVIL War Union New York Navy Yard War Ships Under Construction Stereoview Photo

  

TWEMBLEY A master mechanic at the Brooklyn Navy Yard during the Civil War. Twembley would have been responsible for overseeing the maintenance and repair of machinery and equipment within the yard, ensuring the smooth operation of the shipbuilding and repair processes. Brooklyn Navy Yard originally known. As the New York Navy Yard during the Civil War is a shipyard. And industrial complex in northwest Brooklyn.

New York City, New York. Yard is located on the East River.

Bay, semicircular bend of the river across. From Corlears Hook in Manhattan. By 1860, just before the American Civil War, many European.

Immigrants had moved to Brooklyn, which had become one of. The largest cities in the United States. The yard had expanded to employ thousand of skilled mechanics with. Men working around the clock.

At the start of the war, in 1861, the Brooklyn Navy Yard had 3,700. The navy yard station logs for January 17, 1863, reflected 3,933 workers on the payroll. The yard employed 6,200 men by the end of the war in 1865. During the Civil War, the Brooklyn Navy Yard manufactured 14 large vessels and retrofitted. Another 416 commercial vessels to support the Union's naval blockades against the Confederate.

Was rumored to have been retrofitted within less than 24 hours. Months following President Lincoln's "75,000 volunteers" proclamation in April 1861, the Navy. Yard was busy placing weapons and armaments on vessels, or refurbishing existing weapons and. In an article published that July. Hands have been kept at work incessantly, often at night and on the Sabbath. Launched on November 20, 1861, was the first vessel built at the Navy Yard that was.

Specifically intended for the American Civil War. She participated in the Battle of Forts Jackson.

Philip in 1862, and in the Battle of Mobile Bay in 1864. Another vessel that was outfitted. At the Navy Yard was. Built at the Continental Iron Works in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

And commissioned at Brooklyn Navy Yard on February 25, 1862. Later that year she fought. CSS Virginia (originally USS Merrimack) at the Battle of Hampton Roads. Built for the Union Navy during this time included. Mackinaw, Peoria, Tullahoma, Maumee, Nyack, Wampanoag, and Miantonomoh.

CAPTIONED ON THE LOWER RIGHT MOUNT. DIMENSIONS: 3 3/8" x 6 3/4". SHARP FOCUS AND VERY GOOD CONTRAST. SERIES NAMED ON THE FRONT MOUNT. THIS IS NOT A COPY OR A REPRODUCTION.