From the turn of the 20 th century until the late 1970s, Queensborough was home to many boatbuilding outfits. Dawes Shipyard, Sather Boatworks and Mercer Shipyards were well-known wooden boat and ship ...

The yard of that company is now in greatly enlarged, modernized and vastly improved condition, known as the Upper Plant of The Baltimore Dry Docks and Ship Building Company. With a yard located ...

The ship thereby breaks with the tradition of having ... the MTW yard had been a prolific builder of passengerships for the USSR and other Eastern Bloc states up to the mid-1960s.