Notable Ships Built At Shipyard Predecessors
Piscataqua River region
- 1690 — HMS Falkland - (50-gun Fourth-rate)
- 1696 — HMS Bedford Galley - (32-gun Fifth-rate)
- 1749 — HMS America - (60-gun Fourth-rate)
Badger's Island
- 1776 — Raleigh - (22-gun Frigate)
- 1777 — Ranger - (18-gun Sloop-of-war)
- 1782 — America - (74-gun Ship of the line)
- 1791 — Scammel - (14-gun Schooner)
- 1797 — Crescent - (36-gun Frigate)
- 1798 — Portsmouth - (24-gun Sloop-of-war)
- 1799 — Congress - (38-gun Frigate)
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