National Park Service
The National Park Service is indebted to all those persons who made the production of this book possible. The text greatly benefited from suggestions by naval architect and historian John G. Arrison and historian Frederick R. Black. The primary source for the yard history was the National Park Service report, The Charlestown Navy Yard 1800-1973 (1800-1842 by Edwin C. Bearss; 1842-1890 by Edwin C. Bearss and Frederick R. Black; 1890-1973 by Frederick R. Black). Other important sources were Kenneth J. Hagan’s This People’s Navy: The Making of American Sea Power, 1991; Howard I. Chapelle’s The History of the American Sailing Navy, 1949; and Donald L. Canney’s The Old Steam Navy, 1990. The handbook was produced by the staff of the Division of Publications, National Park Service: Susan Barkus, designer; William Gordon, editor; Nancy Morbeck Haack, cartographer, assisted by the staff of Boston National Historical Park.
All photos not credited are from the files of Boston National Historical Park. Mary Altier [84] (bottom left) John Batchelor [24-25], [26-27], [40-41], [42-43], [58-59], [60], [74-75] Battles and Leaders of the Civil War [43] (top) Boston Athenaeum [4-5], [30], [32-33] The Bostonian Society/Old State House [10-11], [46] George Eastman House [23] Louis Glanzman [19] Greg Harlin [21] (right) James Higgins [66] (top), [78-79], [82-83], [84] (bottom right), [85], [86] (top, bottom) The Kedge-Anchor, by William N. Brady [14] (bottom) Mariner’s Museum [back cover] James McFalls cover, [2-3] National Archives [14] (top; painting by Rear Admiral J.W. Schmidt), [35] (top), [69] (bottom) Jack Pare [84] (top) The Paul Revere Life Insurance Co. [6-7] (painting by A. Lassell Ripley) Robert Tope [8-9] U.S. Marine Corps Museum [28-29] U.S. Naval Academy [44-45] (painting by Frank Christian Muller) USS Constitution Museum [86] (center; photo by Jerry Margolycz)