![]() ![]() In 1864, the American Submarine Company replaced Price and Bushnell. Merriman, Augustus Price and Cornelius Bushnell began work on the Intelligent Whale in New Jersey. They looked to a prototype submarine aptly titled Halstead’s Folly or, the Intelligent Whale. It was 1872 that the Brooklyn Navy Yard saw its first submarine.ĭuring the Civil War, the Union Navy was looking for ways to counter the CSS Hunley and Pioneer. The first Naval publication was published there in 1836 with contributors such as Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper. Perry founded the Naval Lyceum (the predecessor to the U.S. He established the first five Naval shipyards, including the Brooklyn Navy Yard. A New Englander, Adams knew the importance of the sea and of having a strong Naval Force. It was 1801 when President John Adams saw the potential in the Wallabout Bay area. According to the Brooklyn Navy Yard website, the most famous of British ships, the Jersey was moored here where American soldiers, merchants, and traders were imprisoned for disobeying the British embargo. During the American Revolution, Wallabout Bay was occupied by the British. The 335 acres on Wallabout Bay was purchased from the Lenape Indians that were Native to New York harbor. The land the Brooklyn Navy Yard sits on today was originally purchased by Dutch settler Jansen de Rapelje in 1637. Figure 1 Navy Yard workers in the 1940’s. ![]()
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