Remain on exhibition at the Navy Yard in the Twenty-First Century.Īlso in front of the Commandant's Office, but closer to the

Of these weapons, trophies of the conflict with the Confederacy, Semi-circular park was established to hold captured guns. Structure about in the middle of the yard's waterfront side, a Immediately south of the Commandant's Office, a house-like Typical of Naval weapons in the muzzle-loading age. Testing of guns, gun propellants and projectiles at the ranges Where points of impact could be precisely observed, allowing scientific From it, guns could be fired down the Anacostia River, Just inland from the waterfront, and east of the western shiphouse,Ī long shed-like structure was built to serve as an experimental The latter is still in use and looks much as it did in the 1860s, though its interior and its purposes have been greatly changed. Western shiphouse, and nearby, the large brick 'quadrangle', measuring some 300 feet wide by 400 feet long. Among these was an ornate foundry to the north of the Wooden ship houses, one oriented roughly east-west near the westernĮnd of the yard, and the other running north-south at the easternĮnd, many new buildings were erected to support ordnance

Though the waterfront area was still dominated by two big Ships during the 1860s, and continued to do ship repairs longĪfter that, but its efforts were increasingly concentrated on The Navy Yard built and installed machinery for several Steam frigate Minnesota, launched in December 1855 andĬompleted in May 1857, only one more significant ship would beįully constructed there, the gunboat Nipsic during 1873-79. Well into its change to a heavy industrial facility. Washington Navy Yard, Naval Gun Factory and Naval Weaponsīy the time of the Civil War, the Washington Navy Yard was

PLACES - UNITED STATES - WASHINGTON, D.C. To Online Library listing DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY - NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTERĨ05 KIDDER BREESE SE - WASHINGTON NAVY YARD Washington Navy Yard, Naval Gun Factory and Naval Weapons Plant - Overall Views - 19th Century

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