Portsmouth Naval Shipyard

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The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, often called the Portsmouth Navy Yard, is a United States Navy shipyard on Seavey's Island in Kittery, Maine, bordering Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The naval yard lies al

Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in 2004

U.S. Navy yard at Kittery, Maine in 1808

Shipyard in 1853

Aerial view of the shipyard in the 1930s

Treaty of Portsmouth

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The Treaty of Portsmouth formally ended the 1904–1905 Russo-Japanese War. It was signed on September 5, 1905, after negotiations from August 6 to 30, at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine

Portsmouth Naval Shipyard

…Marine Corps, as well as housing for many German U-boat crews after capture, until it closed in 1974. Also in 1905, the Portsmouth Navy Yard hosted the Treaty of Portsmouth which ended the Russo-Japanese War. For arranging the peace conference, President Theodore Roosevelt won the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize. Delegates met in…

Japan–Russia Treaty of Peace, or "Treaty of Portsmouth", September 5, 1905. (Diplomatic Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan)

Negotiating the Treaty of Portsmouth (1905). From left: Russians (at far side of table) Korostovetz, Nabokov, Witte, Rosen, Plancon; Japanese (near side) Adachi, Ochiai, Komura, Takahira, Satō. The conference table is today preserved at the Museum Meiji-mura in Inuyama, Aichi Prefecture, Japan.

Painting of the conference, by Shirataki Ikunosuke [ja] (白滝幾之助), 1931

Treaty Building in 1912