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Philadelphia Navy Yard

Type   92 Factory, Shipyard
Historical Name of Location   Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Coordinates   39.891111000, -75.178611000

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ww2dbaseThe Philadelphia Navy Shipyard in Pennsylvania, United States dated back to 1776 as the country's first naval shipyard. It officially became a US Navy site in 1801. In 1871, new facilities began to be established for the building of modern ships. In 1917, the Naval Aircraft Factory was established at the shipyard's League Island site. After WW1, the world's largest crane, weighing 3,500 tons, was installed at the Philadelphia Navy Shipyard. In 1926, Mustin Field began operations at the Naval Aircraft Factory site. The WW2-era would represent the shipyard's most productive period. During this period, it employed about 40,000 workers, launched 53 ships, and repaired 574 ships. Among the ships the yard had launched were the large and modern battleships USS New Jersey and USS Wisconsin. It also participated in the American atomic weapons research as Philip Abelson developed the liquid thermal diffusion technique for separating uranium-235 at the Naval Laboratory at the shipyard. After WW2, the shipyard's workforce dropped to 12,000. In the 1960s, ship construction began to be contracted out to private firms. In 1963, Mustin Field ceased operations. The final ship built at the Philadelphia Navy Yard would be the command ship Blue Ridge, launched in 1970. In 1991, the Base Realignment and Closure Commission recommended the shipyard's closure, and in 1995 it was formally closed. The 1,000-acre-sized land where the navy shipyard resided were transferred to the city of Philadelphia in Mar 2000. Today the site is of mixed use, with commercial and industrial tenants (including a commercial shipyard), and a small US Navy presence.

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Last Major Update: Dec 2018

Ships Constructed at Philadelphia Navy Yard

Ship NameYard NoSlip/Drydock NoOrderedLaid DownLaunchedCommissioned
Minneapolis27 Jun 19316 Sep 193319 May 1934
Shaw1 Oct 193428 Oct 193518 Sep 1936
Washington14 Jun 19381 Jun 194015 May 1941
New Jersey1 Jul 193916 Sep 19407 Dec 194223 May 1943
Wisconsin12 Jun 194025 Jan 19417 Dec 194316 Apr 1944
Doneff1 Apr 194224 Jul 194210 Jun 1943
Engstrom1 Apr 194224 Jul 194221 Jun 1943


Philadelphia Navy Yard 互動地圖

Photographs

USS Oklahoma during modernization at Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, United States, circa 1928Four-stack destroyer USS Reuben James upon being recommissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, 9 May 1932.USS McFarland at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, United States, 4 Aug 1932Hulls of the Mahan-class destroyers Cassin, left, and Shaw, right, on the ways at Philadelphia Navy Yard 26 Oct 1935 two days before they were both launched.
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Philadelphia Navy Yard Timeline

1931年3月5日 USS New Mexico began modernization work at Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, United States.
1932年6月30日 USS R-5 was decommissioned from service at Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
1933年1月22日 USS New Mexico completed her modernization work at Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, United States. She departed Philadelphia for Guantanamo Bay, Cuba for refresher training.
1934年10月1日 Mahan-class destroyer Shaw was laid down at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States alongside sister-ship Cassin.
1935年10月28日 Mahan-class destroyer Shaw was launched at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
1936年9月18日 Mahan-class destroyer USS Shaw was commissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
1938年6月6日 USS Nashville was commissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard with Captain William W. Wilson in command.
1940年6月1日 Battleship Washington was launched at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, United States. She was the first American battleship to be launched since the 1921 launching of battleship West Virginia.
1940年7月6日 Clifton Cates was made the director of Marine Officers Basic School, at the Philadelphia Navy Yard in Pennsylvania, United States.
1942年12月6日 The keel of Illinois was laid down at Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, United States.
1943年4月4日 USS S-44 arrived at Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, United States.
1943年5月23日 USS New Jersey was commissioned into service at Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, United States.
1943年6月14日 USS S-44 departed Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, United States.
1943年7月19日 The US Naval Aircraft Factory in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States was authorized to embark on the project codenamed Gorgon to develop air-to-air turbojet-powered remotely-controlled missiles.
1944年9月2日 While attempting to unclog a uranium enrichment device at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, United States for the Manhattan Project, chemists Peter Bragg, Douglas Meigs, and Arnold Kramish accidentally set of an explosion, which sprayed liquid uranium hexafluoride and hydrofuoric acid on them. Bragg and Meigs were killed, while Kramish and two soldliers, George LeFevre and John Tompkins, were seriously injured.
1944年9月24日 USS Wisconsin departed Philadelphia Navy Yard in Pennsylvania, United States.
1945年1月22日 Escort carrier USS Card arrived at the Philadelphia Navy Yard for an extensive overhaul.
1945年2月23日 USS Permit arrived at Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, United States.
1945年8月11日 The construction of Illinois at Philadelphia Navy Yard in Pennsylvania, United States was canceled.
1945年9月6日 Destroyer USS Shaw arrived at Philadelphia Navy Yard.
1945年9月11日 Destroyer USS Shaw departed Philadelphia Navy Yard bound for the New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York.
1945年10月9日 USS Bluefish arrived at Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, United States.
1945年11月19日 USS Ranger arrived at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1946年1月8日 USS Honolulu entered the Philadelphia Navy Yard and began her decommissioning overhaul.
1946年1月14日 USS Ranger departed the Philadelphia Navy Yard bound for Norfolk, Virginia.
1946年5月8日 USS Dithmarschen arrived at Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, United States.
1946年6月20日 St. Louis was decommissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard and placed in the reserve fleet.
1946年6月24日 Cruiser USS Nashville was taken out of commission at Philadelphia Navy Yard and placed in reserve after nearly exactly 8 years of active service.
1946年7月12日 USS Portland was decommissioned from service at Philadelphia Navy Yard in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
1947年2月10日 Cruiser USS New Orleans (New Orleans-class) was decommissioned at Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The ship spent 12 years in the reserve fleet before being scrapped.
1949年11月7日 USS Sea Cat arrived at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, United States for upgrades.
1950年3月11日 USS Sea Cat completed her upgrade work at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, United States.
1951年1月3日 Upon ccompletion of submarine Ray's conversion into a radar picket submarine at Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, she was resignated SSR-271.
1952年1月15日 USS Sea Cat arrived at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, United States for conversion into a Fleet Snorkel submarine.
1952年6月26日 USS Sea Cat completed her conversion work at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, United States and departed for Key West, Florida, United States.
1953年3月27日 USS Ray departed Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States for a training cruise off eastern United States and in the Caribbean Sea.
1954年3月5日 Submarine Gür entered Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, United States for the second phase of her GUPPY I conversion.
1954年9月3日 Submarine Gür completed her GUPPY I conversion work at Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, United States.
1967年10月2日 USS Sea Robin entered Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, United States for a scheduled overhaul.
1968年2月1日 USS Sea Robin completed a scheduled overhaul at Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, United States.
1971年7月30日 USS Shangri-La was decommissioned from service for the final time and was placed in the Atlantic Reserved Fleet at Philadelphia Navy Yard in Pennsylvania, United States.




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Visitor Submitted Comments

1. eric weisblatt says:
8 Jul 2018 08:06:42 AM

FOUND A SMALL YELLOW LAMINATED CARD WITH MY DAD'S PICTURE. STATES "PHILADELPHIA DEFENSE COUNCIL, 10/09/1944. IT SATES HE WAS A "MESSENGER" (#3), EMPLOYER F.F.F. Co. PLEASE HELP POINT ME IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION FOR MORE INFO, PLEASE !! THANKING YOU IN ADVANCE FOR ANY ASSISTANCE !!! SINCERELY,

ERIC WEISBLATT
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2. Chris Bingham says:
12 Aug 2020 11:27:11 AM

I just received a pin from the Naval yard from my cousin’s estate. My grandfather’s picture is on the front, draftsman,0360-19. I gather he worked here during the war as a draftsman. He was a church architect in Philadelphia. George E. Savage. Why did they not have names on the pins? It was in a green velvet box which seemed awfully fancy.
3. Anonymous says:
5 Dec 2021 05:18:48 PM

My father worked as a turret master at Phila Nav shipyard. All numerous other brothers fought in WWIi.
4. Richard Murphy says:
4 Dec 2022 11:30:14 PM

My submarine, USS Halfbeak SS-352, was in the Philly Yard in 1959 for overhaul and weeks later for newly broken generator shaft (had to cut open the hull to remove and replace it). She is not mentioned here.
While in for the Generator, while taking a shower onboard, my wallet was stolen by a yardbird.
Further, I saw 2 nearly completed Battle Cruisers, the USS California and I believe the other was the USS Hawaii. Both were moored very near the Main Gate. They too are not mentioned anywhere. What became of them?
5. phil colozzi says:
9 Feb 2024 09:46:41 PM

I remember as a kid 5years old with a pot and spoon banging on the streets of South Philly in the early morning with the planes overhead going to land at the navy yard. What month was that? Thank you
6. Philip M Colozzi says:
1 Mar 2025 07:25:35 AM

I remember as a kid 5years old with a pot and spoon banging on the streets of South Philly in the early morning with the planes overhead going to land at the navy yard. What month was that? Thank you

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WW2-Era Location Name:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Latitude-Longitude:
39.8911, -75.1786

Philadelphia Navy Yard Photo Gallery
USS Oklahoma during modernization at Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, United States, circa 1928
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