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The yard has its origins in a commercial shipyard founded in 1776 on Philadelphia 's Front Street on the Delaware River; it was designated an official United States Navy site in 1801. From 1812 until 1865, it was a large ship production center. The first ship launched to the water was the USS Franklin.
On Friday, 15 September 1995, the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard—or as we call it, the “Mainstay of the Fleet”—will close, bringing to an end a history of uninterrupted service to our Navy from 1801 to 1995.
During the Cold War, the newly renamed Philadelphia Navy Base and Naval Shipyard resumed its more traditional role as a port where ships were mothballed and overhauled. The workforce fell to nine thousand by July 1946.
On March 27, 1794, President George Washington signed the Naval Act, which called for the purchase of six frigates to defend the country. Built in a shipyard below Carpenter Street in Philadelphia’s Southwark neighborhood, the first of the commissioned ships launched from a private shipyard on May 10, 1797.
Philadelphia Naval Shipyard was established in 1801 and closed in 1996. Part of t he shipyard, including Docks 4 and 5, is now leased to Philly Shipyard for ship construction projects and another part, including Docks 2 and 3, is now leased to Rhoads Industries for ship repair projects.
The Philadelphia Naval Shipyard was the first Naval Shipyard in the Nation. In 1799, Congress authorized $522,678 in funds for the purchase of land to establish the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. The shipyard was originally located in the Southwark region of Philadelphia.
The War of 1812 momentarily revived Philadelphia’s shipbuilding as private Delaware River shipyards secured contracts for Jeffersonian gunboats and privateers, while the Humphreys and Penrose shipyard, adjacent to the Southwark Navy Yard, constructed gunboats and laid the keel for the 74-gun ship Franklin.
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