Portsmouth Navy Yard
Naval works, Kittery, Maine.
- Side
- Union
- Kind
- Naval works
- Where
- Kittery, Maine
- Years
- 1861-1865
- Today
- Industry today
PORTSMOUTH NAVY YARD
Navy yard whose workforce grew from fewer than 100 men in April 1861 to more than 1,800 that December. It built the steam sloops Kearsarge and Ossipee, side-wheel gunboats and the monitor Agamenticus. Kearsarge sank the Confederate raider CSS Alabama in 1864.
Then
Fewer than 100 men worked at the yard in April 1861 and more than 1,800 by that December, and the workforce exceeded 2,000 for seven months of the year from mid-1864 to mid-1865. It built the steam sloops Kearsarge and Ossipee, the side-wheel gunboats Sebago, Mahaska and Sassacus, the monitor Agamenticus and other warships.
Kearsarge, launched in 1861, sank the Confederate raider CSS Alabama in 1864. After the war the yard spent $105,000 to buy Seavey's Island.
Now
Industry today
The Navy's oldest continuously operating shipyard, it now mainly overhauls, repairs and modernizes submarines.
The nearest railroad in service today is a line owned by CSX, about 0.6 miles away.
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