The Victory Destroyer Plant was a United States Naval Shipbuilding yard operational from 1918 to 1920 in

Quincy, Massachusetts Quincy ( ) is a city in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. It is the largest city in the county. Quincy is part of the Greater Boston area as one of Boston's immediate southern suburbs. Its population in ...

. It was then reused as a civil airport, and later

Naval Air Station Squantum Naval Air Station Squantum was an active naval aviation facility during 1917 and from 1923 until 1953. The original civilian airfield that preceded it, the Harvard Aviation Field, dates back to 1910. The base was sited on Squantum Point in the ...

. It was owned by the

Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation Bethlehem Steel Corporation Shipbuilding Division was created in 1905 when the Bethlehem Steel Corporation of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, acquired the San Francisco-based shipyard Union Iron Works. In 1917, it was incorporated as Bethlehem Shipbuil ...

, and was constructed in order to relieve destroyer construction at the nearby

Fore River Shipyard Fore River Shipyard was a shipyard owned by General Dynamics Corporation located on Weymouth Fore River in Braintree, Massachusetts, Braintree and Quincy, Massachusetts. It began operations in 1883 in Braintree, and moved to its final location on ...

. Still later in the late 1920s it was used to build yachts by the firm Lamb & O'Connell. One of these yachts, the US10 ''Tipler III'', a 30-square-meter racing yacht, participated in the 1929 International Races sponsored by the Corinthian Yacht Club of Marblehead.

Ships Constructed

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Images of the plantImages of the yard, on History.navy.mil
{{Coord, 42, 17, 59.36, N, 71, 1, 46.38, W, display=title Shipyards of Massachusetts Buildings and structures in Quincy, Massachusetts Defunct shipbuilding companies of the United States Fore River Shipyard Bethlehem shipyards Defunct manufacturing companies based in Massachusetts 1918 establishments in Massachusetts 1920 disestablishments in Massachusetts