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)