Fore River Shipyard was a shipyard owned by General Dynamics Corporation located on Weymouth Fore River in Braintree and Quincy, Massachusetts. It began operations in 1883 in Braintree, and moved to its final location on Quincy Point in 1901. In 1913, it was purchased by Bethlehem Steel, and later transferred to Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation. It was sold to General Dynamics in 1963, and closed in 1986. During its operation, yardworkers constructed hundreds of ships, for both military and civilian clients.
USS Meade (DD-274), USS Sinclair (DD-275), USS McCawley (DD-276), USS Moody (DD-277), USS Henshaw (DD-278), USS Meyer (DD-279), USS Doyen (DD-280), USS Sharkey (DD-281) and USS Katrina Luckenbach (ID-3020) fitting out at Fore River in 1918
Shipyard in 1921
1899 advertisement for the Fore River Shipyard
Thomas W. Lawson on her maiden voyage in 1902
General Dynamics Corporation (GD) is an American publicly traded aerospace and defense corporation headquartered in Reston, Virginia. As of 2020, it was the fifth-largest defense contractor in the world by arms sales, and fifth largest in the United States by total sales. The company is a Fortune 100 company, and was ranked No. 94 in 2022.
The headquarters of General Dynamics in February 2021
In 1999, the company acquired Gulfstream Aerospace. Here, a Gulfstream G650 departs Bristol Airport, England in 2014.
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