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New York Shipbuilding Corporation, the Glossary

The New York Shipbuilding Corporation (or New York Ship for short) was an American shipbuilding company that operated from 1899 to 1968, ultimately completing more than 500 vessels for the U.S. Navy, the United States Merchant Marine, the United States Coast Guard, and other maritime concerns.^[1]

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Aircraft carrier

An aircraft carrier is a warship that serves as a seagoing airbase, equipped with a full-length flight deck and facilities for carrying, arming, deploying, and recovering aircraft.

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Alaska-class cruiser

The Alaska-class were six large cruisers ordered before World War II for the United States Navy (USN), of which only two were completed and saw service late in the war.

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American International Corporation

American International Corporation was an American investment trust founded in 1915 by Frank Vanderlip; Willard Straight was the key operational leader.

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Baltimore-class cruiser

The Baltimore-class heavy cruisers were a class of heavy cruisers in the United States Navy commissioned during and shortly after World War II.

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Barbel-class submarine

The Barbel-class submarines, the last diesel-electric propelled attack submarines built by the United States Navy, incorporated numerous, radical engineering improvements over previous classes.

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Barge

Barge often refers to a flat-bottomed inland waterway vessel which does not have its own means of mechanical propulsion.

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Battle of Point Judith

The Battle of Point Judith is the popular name for a naval engagement fought between the United States and Nazi Germany during World War II on May 5 and 6, 1945 - with Germany on the verge of total defeat and surrender, and Hitler having already died by suicide.

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Battlecruiser

The battlecruiser (also written as battle cruiser or battle-cruiser) was a type of capital ship of the first half of the 20th century.

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Battleship

A battleship is a large, heavily armored warship with a main battery consisting of large-caliber guns, designed to serve as capital ships with the most intense firepower.

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Caisson (engineering)

In geotechnical engineering, a caisson (borrowed,, an augmentative of) is a watertight retaining structure used, for example, to work on the foundations of a bridge pier, for the construction of a concrete dam, or for the repair of ships.

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Camden, New Jersey

Camden is a city in Camden County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Car float

A railroad car float or rail barge is a specialised form of lighter with railway tracks mounted on its deck used to move rolling stock across water obstacles, or to locations they could not otherwise go.

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Collier (ship)

A collier is a bulk cargo ship designed or used to carry coal.

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Cruiser

A cruiser is a type of warship.

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Delaware River

The Delaware River is a major river in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States and is the longest free-flowing (undammed) river in the Eastern United States.

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Dry dock

A dry dock (sometimes drydock or dry-dock) is a narrow basin or vessel that can be flooded to allow a load to be floated in, then drained to allow that load to come to rest on a dry platform.

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Electus D. Litchfield

Electus Darwin Litchfield, FAIA (1872–1952) was an American architect and town planner, practicing in New York City.

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Emergency Fleet Corporation

The Emergency Fleet Corporation (EFC) was established by the United States Shipping Board, sometimes referred to as the War Shipping Board, on 16 April 1917 pursuant to the Shipping Act (39 Stat. 729) to acquire, maintain, and operate merchant ships to meet national defense, foreign and domestic commerce during World War I.

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Errett Lobban Cord

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Fairview, Camden

Fairview, originally named Yorkship Village, is a neighborhood located in southern Camden, in Camden County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Fast combat support ship

The fast combat support ship (US Navy hull classification symbol: AOE) is a type of replenishment auxiliary ship.

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Four Aces (passenger liners)

The 4 Aces were the quartet of passenger-cargo liners Excalibur, Exochorda, Exeter, and Excambion, originally built for American Export Lines by New York Shipbuilding of Camden, New Jersey between 1929 and 1931.

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Google Earth

Google Earth is a computer program that renders a 3D representation of Earth based primarily on satellite imagery.

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Heavy cruiser

A heavy cruiser was a type of cruiser, a naval warship designed for long range and high speed, armed generally with naval guns of roughly 203 mm (8 inches) in calibre, whose design parameters were dictated by the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.

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Ingalls Shipbuilding

Ingalls Shipbuilding is a shipyard located in Pascagoula, Mississippi, United States, originally established in 1938, and now part of HII.

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International Mercantile Marine Company

The International Mercantile Marine Company, originally the International Navigation Company, was a trust formed in the early twentieth century as an attempt by J.P. Morgan to monopolize the shipping trade.

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Japanese submarine I-25

was a B1 type (''I-15''-class) submarine of the Imperial Japanese Navy that served in World War II, took part in the Attack on Pearl Harbor, and was the only Axis submarine to carry out aerial bombing on the continental United States in World War II, during the so-called Lookout Air Raids, and the shelling of Fort Stevens, both attacks occurring in the state of Oregon.

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Landing craft tank

The landing craft, tank (LCT) (or tank landing craft, TLC) was an amphibious assault craft for landing tanks on beachheads.

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Light aircraft carrier

A light aircraft carrier, or light fleet carrier, is an aircraft carrier smaller than the standard carriers of a navy.

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Merchant ship

A merchant ship, merchant vessel, trading vessel, or merchantman is a watercraft that transports cargo or carries passengers for hire.

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New York Shipbuilding strike

The New York Shipbuilding strike was a strike that occurred in the Port of Camden, New Jersey, in the spring of 1934 by the New York Shipbuilding Company.

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NS Savannah

NS Savannah was the first nuclear-powered merchant ship.

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Nuclear marine propulsion

Nuclear marine propulsion is propulsion of a ship or submarine with heat provided by a nuclear reactor.

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Ocean liner

An ocean liner is a type of passenger ship primarily used for transportation across seas or oceans.

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Oil tanker

An oil tanker, also known as a petroleum tanker, is a ship designed for the bulk transport of oil or its products.

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Pacific Mail Steamship Company

The Pacific Mail Steamship Company was founded April 18, 1848, as a joint stock company under the laws of the State of New York by a group of New York City merchants.

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Permit-class submarine

The Permit-class submarine (known as the Thresher class until the lead boat was lost) was a class of nuclear-powered fast attack submarines (hull classification symbol SSN) in service with the United States Navy from the early 1960s until 1996.

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Philadelphia Naval Shipyard

The Philadelphia Naval Shipyard was the first United States Navy shipyard and was historically important for nearly two centuries. New York Shipbuilding Corporation and Philadelphia Naval Shipyard are shipyards building World War II warships.

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A planned community, planned city, planned town, or planned settlement is any community that was carefully planned from its inception and is typically constructed on previously undeveloped land.

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Port of Camden

The Port of Camden is situated on east bank of the Delaware River in Camden and Gloucester City in southern New Jersey.

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Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers

The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME) is a global professional society that provides a forum for the advancement of the engineering profession as applied to the marine field.

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SS Gulflight

Gulflight was an American oil tanker built by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation of Camden, New Jersey for the Gulf Refining Company (a predecessor of Gulf Oil).

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SSN (hull classification symbol)

An SSN is a nuclear-powered general-purpose attack submarine.

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Staten Island

Staten Island is the southernmost borough of New York City, coextensive with Richmond County and situated at the southernmost point of New York.

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Submarine

A submarine (or sub) is a watercraft capable of independent operation underwater.

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U-boat

U-boats were naval submarines operated by Germany, particularly in the First and Second World Wars.

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United States Coast Guard

The United States Coast Guard (USCG) is the maritime security, search and rescue, and law enforcement service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the country's eight uniformed services.

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United States Department of War

The United States Department of War, also called the War Department (and occasionally War Office in the early years), was the United States Cabinet department originally responsible for the operation and maintenance of the United States Army, also bearing responsibility for naval affairs until the establishment of the Navy Department in 1798, and for most land-based air forces until the creation of the Department of the Air Force on September 18, 1947.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Shipbuilding_Corporation

Also known as New York Ship Building Corporation, New York Shipbuilding, New York Shipbuilding Co., New York Shipbuilding Company.

, W. R. Grace and Company, World War I, World War II.

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Defunct manufacturing companies based in New Jersey

Industrial buildings and structures in New Jersey

Shipyards building World War II warships

Shipyards of the United States

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