The Philadelphia Navy Yard
Subtitle: From the Birth of the U.S. Navy to the Nuclear Age (Barra Foundation Book)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: November 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780812235753
Subjects: History of specific subjects; Naval forces & warfare; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1990 to c 2000; Naval History (General); History; History - Military / War; History: American; Northeastern & North Atlantic states; Philadelphia Naval Shipyard (P; Military - Naval; Military Science; Philadelphia Naval Shipyard (Philadelphia, Pa.)
First sentence: LOCATED ON the Delaware River nearly one hundred miles from the open sea, the city of Philadelphia seemed an unlikely place for a navy yard.