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Portsmouth Harbor’s Military and Naval Heritage (NH) (Images of America)

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Including more than 200 vintage photographs and illustrations, Portsmouth Harbor’s Military and Naval Heritage chronicles the history of the Piscataqua River’s naval shipyard and harbor defenses. Long before it was home to one of the vital U.S. Navy’s first federal shipyards, the harbor at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and Kittery, Maine, used to be safe by gun batteries, basically at Fort Point, New Castle, New Hampshire. By the tip of World War II, brand new concrete batteries mounting guns of ever longer range had been constructed at this and three other forts straddling the river’s mouth. These fortifications reflected the more and more essential role of the shipyard, dedicated after 1917 to building submarines that contributed significantly to the World War II victory.

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