Portsmouth Harbor's Military and Naval Heritage

Nelson H. Lawry, Glen M. Williford, Leo K. Polaski

• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
• Year: 2004
• ISBN:
  9781439632079
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

Including more than two hundred vintage photographs and illustrations, Portsmouth Harbors Military and Naval Heritage chronicles the history of the Piscataqua Rivers naval shipyard and harbor defenses. Long before it became home to one of the U.S. Navys first federal shipyards, the harbor at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and Kittery, Maine, was protected by gun batteries, mainly at Fort Point, New Castle, New Hampshire. By the end of World War II, modern concrete batteries mounting guns of ever longer range had been constructed at this and three other forts straddling the rivers mouth. These fortifications reflected the increasingly important role of the shipyard, dedicated after 1917 to building submarines that contributed significantly to the World War II victory.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• One - AT SHORT RANGE THE MUZZLELOADING ERA
• Two - WOOD, SAIL, AND STEAM THE NAVY YARD, PART I
• Three - CONCRETE AND STEEL THE EARLY MODERN DEFENSES
• Four - STEEL HULLS AND STEEL GUNS THE NAVY YARD, PART II
• Five - SUBMARINES AND A TWO-OCEAN WAR THE NAVY YARD, PART III
• Six - THE LAST ROUND WORLD WAR II DEFENSES