Abstract
After two hundred years of operation, the naval shipyard at Philadelphia closed in 1996. A significant Philadelphia institution, the yard's importance to the U.S. Navy ebbed and flowed over the years, and its survival, in a continuation of the history of its establishment, often relied more on political [End Page 810] and personal alliances than on naval utility. The history Jeffery Dorwart conveys in this well-researched and extensively illustrated account is not why the navy yard was closed but "why it had taken so long to do so" (p. 4). Though located a hundred miles from the Atlantic Ocean, up the Delaware River, the Philadelphia yard did have a continual selling point: the surrounding industrial infrastructure and the supply of skilled laborers in the Delaware Valley.
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