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Venetian wealth was built on controlling trade routes to the east which was the source of luxury goods such as silk, spices and perfumes. The key to this was naval power and overseas naval bases such as Crete. In fact, they referred to their empire as the Stato da Mar (Nation of the Seas). So the Darsena Arsenale (naval facilities) was the central component of their power and wealth.
Venice, Italy
Aythya Valisineria
It was amazing to see so many in a small area and so close to land. At least 100 were there.
(The map says NJ, but its PA)
Philadelphia Navy Yard, PA
The USS John F. Kennedy CVA 67 (mothballed) at the Navy Yard, South Philly.
*Note - the map section on Flickr is messed up, this is not NJ - it IS Philadelphia PA.
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The Navy Yard, formerly known as the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard was an important naval shipyard of the US for almost two centuries. It is now a large industrial park.
It began in 1776 at the Front and Federal Street intersection (in what is now the Pennsport) and was the first naval shipyard in the US. The newer (larger) yard grew as facilities began expanding in 1871 on League Island at the confluence of the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers.
With the end of the Soviet Union, the US Navy ended most of its activities there in the 1990s. Subsequently, in 2000, the Philadelphia city gov't took over and began to redevelop the land. The Navy still has a Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility and a few engineering activities at the site.
The shipyard's greatest period came in World War II, when the yard employed 40,000 people who built 53 ships and repaired 574 more. During this period, the yard built the famed battleship New Jersey and its 45,000-ton sister ship, Wisconsin. In the Naval Laboratory, Philip Abelson developed the liquid thermal diffusion technique for separating U-235 for the Manhattan Project.