Location
Satellite and aerial maps of Fore River Shipyard with nearby locations | |
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| Km | Bearing | ||
| 10.4 | 164 | KNZW | NAS South Weymouth, Massachusetts |
| 14.1 | 348 | KBOS | General Edward Lawrence Logan, Massachusetts |
| 15.8 | 314 | 36MA |  BIDMC Heliport, Massachusetts |
| 16.0 | 330 | 0MA1 | Massachusetts General Hospital Heliport, Massachusetts |
| 16.6 | 336 |  Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts | |
| 17.4 | 252 | KOWD | Norwood Memorial, Massachusetts |
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History of this Location | |
The Fore River Shipyard, more formally known as the Fore River Ship and Engine Building Company was a shipyard from 1883 until 1986. In the 1960s, the yard was purchased by General Dynamics.
List of ships built at Fore River Shipyard | Login to Edit | |
| From | |||
| 1943 | Cruiser |  | Baltimore class |
| 1944 | Cruiser |  | Cleveland class |
| 1946 | Destroyer |  | Gearing class |
| 1946 | Cruiser |  | Oregon City class |
| 1954 | Destroyer |  | Mitscher class |
| 1955 | Destroyer |  | Farragut class |
| 1961 | Guided-Missile Cruiser (Nuclear Powered) |  | Long Beach class |
| 1962 | Guided-Missile Cruiser (Nuclear Powered) |  | Bainbridge class |
| 1968 | Support Ship |  | Kilauea class |
| 1969 | Support Ship |  | Wichita class |
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| 1942-aug-26 |  CA-69 USS Boston | Baltimore class | ||||
| 1943-apr-19 | CA-70 USS Canberra | Baltimore class | ||||
| 1944-mar-9 | CL-66 USS Springfield | Cleveland class | ||||
| 1944-aug-19 | CL-67 USS Topeka | Cleveland class | ||||
| 1944-nov-30 | CA-74 USS Columbus | Baltimore class | ||||
| 1944-dec-28 | CL-82 USS Providence | Cleveland class | ||||
| 1945-jun-30 | CA-123 USS Albany | Oregon City class | ||||
| 1946-mar-15 | DD-853 USS Charles H Roan | Gearing class | ||||
| 1952-jan-26 | DL-4 USS Willis A. Lee | Mitscher class | ||||
| 1952-apr-23 | DL-5 USS Wilkinson | Mitscher class | ||||
| 1959-jul-9 | DL-8 USS Macdonough | Farragut class | ||||
| 1959-jul-14 | CGN-9 USS Long Beach | Long Beach class | ||||
| 1961-apr-15 | CGN-25 USS Bainbridge | Bainbridge class | ||||
| 1967-aug-9 | AE-26 USS Kilauea | Kilauea class | ||||
| 1967-aug-9 | AE-27 USS Butte | Kilauea class | ||||
| 1968-mar-16 | AOR-1 USS Wichita | Wichita class | ||||
| 1969-jan-1 | AOR-2 USS Milwaukee | Wichita class | ||||
| 1969-jun-1 | AOR-3 USS Kansas City | Wichita class | ||||
| 1970-mar-23 | AOR-4 USS Savannah | Wichita class | ||||
| 1971-feb-6 | AOR-5 USS Wabash | Wichita class | ||||
| 1972-nov-1 | AOR-6 USS Kalamazoo | Wichita class | ||||
