Fore River Shipyard

The Fore River Shipyard was an American shipyard in Massachusetts south of Boston.

It was founded by Thomas A. Watson in 1884 at the Fore River near the town of East Braintree Fore River Ship and Engine as Building Company. 1901 she moved to the vicinity of the city of Quincy.

For Japan, five submarines were built, which were used in the Russo- Japanese War. From 1907 to 1924 the U- boats were built for the Electric Boat Corporation in the Fore River Ship Yard.

The yard was bought in 1913 by Bethlehem Steel and renamed " Fore River Shipyard ". In 1964 the complex was purchased by General Dynamics. The yard closed in 1986.

At the shipyard several well-known warships were built, including the USS Lexington ( CV-2 ), the first aircraft carrier of the United States Navy; the cruiser USS Salem ( CA -139 ) or the first nuclear cruiser, the USS Long Beach ( CGN- 9). Even the world 's largest ( gaff ) - savers, and only seven Master of the world fleet, the Thomas W. Lawson, was from this yard.

The became known Kilroy drawing with the phrase " Kilroy was here. " had its origin at the Fore River Shipyard. It originated during the Second World War as a kind of control characters of the weld inspector John J. Kilroy.

After the closure of the yard the Salem in 1994 returned and is an exhibit of it for their United States Naval Shipbuilding Museum. Some parts of the yard were purchased in 2004 from a car dealer as a deposit; other parts serve as a dock for commuter boats from Boston. A part of the 1975- built big block shipyard crane ( Goliath crane called, and at times the world's second largest of its kind ) collapsed at its dismantling in August 2008, one worker died. The sea pontoon, with the finished until months later dismantled crane for shipyard Daewoo Mangalia Heavy Industries was transported to Romania, received in memory of the unfortunate workers the name Harvey. Also the large floating crane in the Fore River Shipyard was eventually canceled in July / August 2009 in Boston.