It is the oldest and largest industrial facility that belongs to the U.S. Navy as well as the most comprehensive. Located on the Elizabeth River, the yard is just a short distance upriver from its mouth at Hampton Roads. It was established as Gosport Shipyard in 1767.

On November 1, 1767 Andrew Sprowle, a merchant and ship owner, established the Gosport Shipyard on the western shore of the Elizabeth River under the British flag. The shipyard developed and...

2020年4月16日 · Gosport Navy Yard, located in Portsmouth, across the Elizabeth River from the busy port of Norfolk, Virginia, was one of the largest shipyards in the United States. Norfolk merchant Andrew Sprowl established the yard in 1767. Sprowl remained a loyalist when the Revolutionary War erupted.

The Gosport Navy Yard located in Portsmouth, across the Elizabeth River from the larger city of Norfolk, was abandoned by the Union, with many vessels set afire and scuttled, and captured by the Confederates on April 20, 1861.

On 20 April 1861, just more than a week after the Civil War began, the Union Navy abandoned its Gosport Navy Yard, leaving behind 11 naval vessels sinking or burning. Even worse, more than 1,000 cannon had fallen into the hands of Virginia militia.

2020年5月7日 · The yard soon would be the site where the Confederates transformed the burnt and sunken USS Merrimack into the powerful ironclad ram CSS Virginia. This is part three of a four-part series about Gosport Navy Yard by John Quarstein. “The Recapture of Gosport” follows. Excerpted from CSS Virginia: Sink Before Surrender, John V. Quarstein ...

Federal Evacuation - Confederate Navy. When war between the Government of the United States and the seceding southern states appeared to be imminent, the Federal authorities evacuated and set fires...

2020年5月21日 · On the evening of May 6, CSS Yorktown, towing the incomplete CSS Richmond and CSS Hampton, and CSS Jamestown, carrying ordnance supplies and heavy guns, made their escape from Norfolk under the cover of darkness.

2009年6月23日 · Gosport Navy Yard was first estab­lished in 1767 by British naval agent Andrew Sprowle. It was occu­pied by patriot forces in 1775 and oper­ated as a ship­yard by the Vir­ginia State Navy. Gosport, the largest ship­yard in Amer­ica, was burned by the British in 1779 when they occu­pied Portsmouth.

The Gosport Navy Yard was a key installation of the US Navy prior to the Civil War. Commodore Perry steamed from there in 1851 in his flagship of the Black Fleet. Perry crossed the Pacific Ocean, and used warships from Virginia to force Japan to open its ports to foreign trade. 8