Collection of Twenty Pamphlets and Government Documents Pertaining to Dry Docks and Navy Yards in the United States, 1823 - 1901.

These cover, in no particular order, proposals for dry docks or navy yards in Brunswick, GA, 1855; Baltimore, MD, 1826; Newport, RI, 1854; Pensacola - 3 pamphlets, 1854-1855; Beaufort and Wilmington, NC - 3 pamphlets, 1840 and 1854; Gulf of Mexico, 1892; Port Royal, SC, 1901; Philadelphia/League Island, 3 pamphlets - 1838-1866. Additionally, General Report, Bureau of Yards and Docks, 1853; Sale of Navy Yards, 1876; Centennial History of Portsmouth, NH Navy Yard, 1875; Report on Floating Docks, 1842; Commodore Rodgers' Marine Railway, 1823; Study of Stone Dry Dock, Pensacola, 1846; and lastly, a pamphlet with a large folding lithograph illustration - 16 x 31 inches - of a proposed dry dock... Ephemera. (Floating Dry Dock). "A brief sketch of the plan and advantages of a sectional floating dry dock, combined with a permanent stone basin and platform, and connected with level bedways, sliding ways, and housed slips, for repairing, launching, and laying up in ordinary, the ships of the United States Navy." NY: 1844. folding b/w litho ill. (1), 32 pp. The main feature of this interesting work is the large folding lithographed plate of the proposed works. It measures 16 x 31 inches and is signed by P.R. Hodge... 2 Wall St. NY. The promoters of the project, Dodge, Burgess, Moody and Deakin identify themselves at the top of the plate. By 1845 they had formed the New York Dry Dock Co. and petitioned Congress for support. Bound in original printed wrappers. Front wrap has a piece torn from upper corner with no loss of text.All are securely housed in a blue cloth slipcase with a leather spine label reading "Naval Dry Docks." Many removed from larged volumes, but all in good - very good condition. The lot. Twenty 8vo pamphlets, various paginations. (Inventory #: 48021)