Letter : Portsmouth, Virginia, to Loammi Baldwin, Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1834 May 1.

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Letter : Portsmouth, Virginia, to Loammi Baldwin, Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1834 May 1.

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In this somewhat gossipy letter, Sanger writes that the frigate "Congress," now in dock, is to be scrapped. He states that "some of the knowing men in the yard, begin to think that it would be well for the government to appoint you Engineer for the yard."

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Sanger, William T. (William Thomas), 1885-1975

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William Thomas Sanger, the son of Samuel F. and Susan Thomas Sanger, was born on Sepember 16, 1885 in Bridgewater, (Rockingham County) Virginia where he attended primary school at the Academy associated wtih Bridgewater College until 1896. The economic depression of the 1890s hit the Bridgewater area quite hard, and Samuel Sanger was compelled to take a salaried position with the Southern Railroad Company. The new job meant a move to Calverton, Virginia, where the family lived only one year befo...

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United States. Navy

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Built and launched at New York Navy Yard; commissioned Nov. 12, 1944; scraped in 1993. Served in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. From the description of USS Bon Homme Richard (CV/CVA-31) photograph collection 1944-1971. (The Mariners' Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 41657866 The federal government decided in 1941 to send Supply Corps personnel to Harvard Business School for training in the business of equipping the Navy. This was effected by a transfer...

Baldwin, Loammi, 1780-1838

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Loammi Baldwin, 1780-1838, class of 1800, Harvard College, was a lawyer and later a civil engineer whose projects included canal construction and harbor improvement, railroads, water power projects, and city water supplies. He was in charge of the design and construction of dry docks at the Charlestown, Massachusetts, and Norfolk, Virginia, Navy Yards. His father (Loammi Baldwin, 1745-1807) was one of New England's first civil engineers, and his brothers, James Fowle Baldwin and George Rumford B...