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Los Angeles class submarine
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The Los Angeles-class attack submarines (SSN) are the most numerous class of nuclear powered submarines built by any nation, and form the bulk of the U.S. attack submarine force as of 2007. They were preceded by the Sturgeon-class. Usually named after U.S. cities, the class broke a long-standing Navy tradition of naming attack submarines after sea creatures. The boats are also colloquially referred to as "688-class" subs, after the hull classification symbol of the first boat, SSN-688.

Water Country
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Former Pease Air Force Base
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Closed in 1991, the 4,254 acre base is to be turned into an industrial park. The facility is on the EPA's Superfund list, with 20 waste sites including toxic sludge dumps, and a fire training area where diesel fuel has contaminated soil and water. Was a SAC bomber base. Still has a National Guard refueling wing based here.

Bridge and conning tower from the submarine USS Squalus / USS Sailfish (SS-192)
kjfitz (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kjfitz.
Disaster struck on May 23, 1939 when the Portsmouth submarine, USS SQUALUS sank off the Isles of Shoals during sea trials (approximately 12 miles from the Shipyard) in 240 feet of water becase the main induction valve fails to close. The USS SCULPIN, a sister ship of SQUALUS, located SQUALUS on the bottom and rescue vessels and workers began to pour in from Boston, New London, and Washington. The McCann Rescue Chamber was rushed from New London and the first of the survivors were brought to the surface on May 24. After several attempts and much trouble, SQUALUS was finally raised on September 13 and towed to the Shipyard. She was put out of commission two months later, rebuilt and recommissioned as USS SAILFISH just a year after she had sunk. The bridge and conning tower of SAILFISH are now at the Shipyard as a memorial to the 26 officers and men lost on SQUALUS. For more Shipyard history, click on our History link on this page.

USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69)
USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69), nicknamed "Ike", is the second of 10 Nimitz-class supercarriers in the United States Navy, named after the thirty-fourth President of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower. Originally, she was named Eisenhower, much like her sister, Nimitz. On 25 May 1970, the name was lengthened to Dwight D. Eisenhower. On commissioning, Ike replaced the aged World War II-era carrier USS Franklin D. Roosevelt in the fleet.

Pretty In Pink
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Former Pease AFB Weapons Storage Area
skyeye (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: skyeye.
The nuclear weapons at Pease AFB (http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/7898/)were stored here.
See also:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/facility/q_area-intro.htm
http://ludb.clui.org/ex/i/NY3171/
http://www.naco.faa.gov/d-tpp/0711/00678AD.PDF

Old Portsmouth Naval Prison
Former site of Fort Sullivan.
Now closed, this US naval prison, known as "The Rock," on Seavey Island in Kittery was the most feared for 66 years. It contained about 86,000 military inmates.

Tidal wave?
AlejoHausner (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: AlejoHausner.
A tidal wave or bore is the leading edge of the incoming tide, in a narrow estuary. This may be one, on the Piscataqua river between New Hampshire and Maine, USA, which has very swift tidal currents.

Escobar's Highland Farms Maze
TexasAndroid (VirtualGlobetrotting)
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Conning tower from the USS Grayling (SSN-646)
Anyone know the source of this sail? I assume it is a monument or memorial.

Los Angeles class submarine in drydock
The Los Angeles class is a class of nuclear-powered fast attack submarines (SSN) that forms the backbone of the United States submarine fleet, and is the most numerous class of nuclear powered submarine in the world. They were preceded by the Sturgeon class and followed by the short-lived Seawolf class and the Virginia class. Usually named after U.S. cities, the LA class broke a long-standing Navy tradition of naming attack submarines after sea creatures. The boats are also colloquially referred to as "688-class" subs, after the hull classification symbol of the first boat, SSN-688.

Neil Garvey's house (former)
Champion3 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Champion3.
Neil Garvey is a former executive of Tyco, the large security corporation that is known for its 2002 scandal involving CEO Dennis Kozlowski. Garvey recieved large loans from the company, without the board of directors' knowledge, to purchase this home. It was sold for $6.2 million in 2011.

Fort Dearborn (Battery Seaman)
The onset of World War II saw the need for increased protection of Portsmouth Harbor that could not be met by any of the other existing forts of the area. Two batteries of modern twin 6-inch guns (200-series), with a range of 15 miles, and a battery of twin 16-inch guns (100-series), with a range of 25 miles, were planned as part of the new defenses. Fort Foster only had room for one new battery, but there was no space available at any of the other forts without destroying existing batteries, which was deemed unacceptable. The only available land was between Odiorne's Point and Frost Point in Rye, which at the time was home to several fashionable summer houses on 22 lots. In 1942 the federal government condemned and purchased all of the land between the two points (264.9 acres) and gave all residents 30 days to pack up and leave. In those days, market conditions were depressed, and no one got top dollar. To this day the surviving "old-timers" still feel bitter about the whole affair, mostly because they did not get a chance to get any of it back when the military left. The coastal highway was then closed to the public, which then had to use another route to travel along the coast between Portsmouth and Hampton.

Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker
The Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker is an aerial refueling tanker aircraft. It has been in service with the U.S. Air Force since 1957.

Sail from USS Thomas Jefferson (SSBN-618)
Tyco (VirtualGlobetrotting)
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Fort Stark
Fort Stark is one of seven forts built to protect Portsmouth Harbor. The others in New Hampshire are: Fort Washington, Fort Constitution (William and Mary), and Fort Dearborn (Odiorne Point State Park), and in Maine: Fort Sullivan, Fort McClary and Fort Foster.
The earliest forts were built to protect the colonists. As Portsmouth Harbor's importance increased with its Revolutionary War shipbuilding industry and the establishment of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in 1800, additional fortification was needed.
At Jerry's Point there is evidence of earthwork fortification, circa 1842, and a stonework fort, circa 1873. Following the Spanish American War (1898) the improved defense of key harbors became a national priority. Fortifications such as Fort Stark were constructed on both coasts during the Endicott Period (1890-1920) and at Forts Constitution, McClary and Foster. The basic defense concept was to mine the harbor entrances and erect gun batteries. No shots were ever fired in anger.
The final coastal fortification occurred during World War II (WWII) when batteries were added to Fort Foster, and Fort Dearborn was constructed. The five remaining forts are obsolete and today are considered historic sites or parks which are open to the public. Following World War II the navy took over the army installations and used Fort Stark primarily for reserve training until the property was deeded to the state of New Hampshire in 1978 and 1983.

Submarine USS Albacore (AGSS-569)
USS Albacore holds a place in history as the first Navy-designed vessel with a true submarine hull form, in which surface characteristics were subordinated to underwater performance. She possessed no weapon systems; her sole function was to conduct experiments. During her early trials, she set a new underwater speed record with improved control. From 1955 to 1971, Albacore served in five distinct phases of experimentation, carrying out tests of speed, depth changes and underwater maneuvering. Through a series of configurations, she provided the model for all future U.S. Navy and many foreign submarines that followed.
U.S. Navy scientists used Albacore as a floating laboratory to test sonar devices, hydrophones, diving brakes and emergency escape systems. She also served as a high-speed, almost noiseless target for anti-submarine warfare. In 1966, she again set a new submerged speed record, earning a reputation as the world's fastest submarine. Albacore was retired from service in 1972, and transferred to the Portsmouth Submarine Memorial Association in 1984. She was placed in a permanent dry berth and opened to the public in October 1985.
USS Albacore is a National Historic Landmark and a Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark.

Submarine sheds at Portsmouth Naval Ship Yard

Los Angeles class submarine
The Los Angeles class is a class of nuclear-powered fast attack submarines (SSN) that forms the backbone of the United States submarine fleet, and is the most numerous class of nuclear powered submarine in the world. They were preceded by the Sturgeon class and followed by the short-lived Seawolf class and the Virginia class. Usually named after U.S. cities, the LA class broke a long-standing Navy tradition of naming attack submarines after sea creatures. The boats are also colloquially referred to as "688-class" subs, after the hull classification symbol of the first boat, SSN-688.

Spare submarine "noses"
Radomes cover radars. What covers sonar?

Richard Jackson House
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By: LancelotLink.
The Richard Jackson House in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA, is the oldest surviving wood frame house in New Hampshire or Maine. This National Historic Landmark was built in 1664 by Richard Jackson, a woodworker, farmer, and mariner, on his family's 25 acre plot.

Pan Am Airlines & Airliner

USCGC Forward (WMEC-911)
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John Paul Jones House
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By: neotrix.
The John Paul Jones House was the home of Captain Gregory Purcell and his wife in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. They had it built in 1758 and Purcell lived there until his death in 1776. The widow Purcell then took in boarders. American naval hero John Paul Jones rented a room during 1781-1782 while supervising construction of the ship America. This is the only surviving building in the United States known to have been associated with John Paul Jones.
The house is located at Middle and State Streets. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1972.

Airplane over Rhode Island

Wyland Whale mural - 'Isle of Shoals Humpbacks'

Strawbery Banke
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Strawbery Banke is an outdoor history museum located in the South End historic district of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. It is the oldest neighborhood in New Hampshire to be settled by Europeans, and the earliest neighborhood remaining in the present-day city of Portsmouth. It features more than 40 restored buildings built between the 17th and 19th centuries in the Colonial, Georgian, and Federal style architectures. The buildings once clustered around a waterway known as Puddle Dock, which was filled in around 1900. Today the former waterway appears as a large open space.

Naval Medical Center Portsmouth
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Portsmouth High School
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USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) amphibious assault ship
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Craney Island Supply Depot
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Lightship Portsmouth

Mount Hope Bridge
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The Mount Hope Bridge is a two-lane suspension bridge spanning the Mount Hope Bay in eastern Rhode Island, at one of the narrowest gaps in Narragansett Bay. The bridge connects the Rhode Island towns of Portsmouth and Bristol, and is part of Route 114. Its towers are 285 feet (87 m) tall, the length of the main span is 1,200 feet (366 m) and it offers 135 feet (41 m) of clearance over high water. The total length of the bridge is 6,130 feet (1,868 m).

Temporary gun mounts for Fort Dearborn
The first emplacement that was built here in 1942 was a temporary one, consisting of four 155mm guns, Model 1918M1, serials 872, 783, 1080, 235 (Minneapolis Steel and Machine Co.), on tractor-drawn carriages, Model 1918M1, serials 572, 694, 328, 746 (Minneapolis Steel and Machine Co.), set in concrete "Panama mounts" at Odiorne's Point. Three of these mounts are still visible today. The fourth is buried under some brush. The center of the gun carriage was placed over the central "hub" of the mount. The towing trails of the carriage were set on the steel rails on the outer ring, to allow for a full 360º field of fire. The guns were originally temporarily set up at Frost Point in field emplacements in 1941. Four earth-covered concrete magazines were built behind the gun mounts (two forward and two rear), along with a Battery Commander's Station. These structures no longer exist, however the concrete foundation of the #2 forward magazine can still be found. This battery served until 1944, when the other new batteries here were completed.

Moffatt-Ladd House
neotrix (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: neotrix.
Moffatt-Ladd House is a 1763 Georgian house that was the home of William Whipple, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and Revolutionary War general.
The house was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1968

Rockingham Hotel
The Rockingham Hotel is a historic hotel that was originally built in 1785 as a residence by Woodbury Langdon, prominent merchant and politician. Thomas Coburn converted it into a hotel which opened November 1, 1833. Frank Jones, who was, among other things, mayor of Portsmouth, a US Representative, and a brewer, bought it in 1870. After a fire in 1884, Jones rebuilt it extensively. The only significant part saved from Langdon's mansion was the dining room, which is now the Library Restaurant.
The building incorporates lions, Jones's personal symbol, terra cotta sculptures of the Four Seasons of Man, and busts of Jones and Langdon. It was a hotel until 1973 and is now condominiums. The building has been host to presidents George Washington, Franklin Pierce, James K. Polk, Theodore Roosevelt, Chester A. Arthur, William H. Taft and John F. Kennedy.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

MacPheadris-Warner House
The Warner House, also known as MacPheadris-Warner House, is one of the finest early-Georgian brick houses in New England. This structure was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1960.

Portsmouth Cogeneration Plant
Utilizes a stoker coal fueled design to provide 120 megawatts of reliable electricity to Dominion Virginia Power. A cogeneration facility, Portsmouth also provides process steam to the adjacent BASF and Celanese manufacturing facility. The plant went into commercial operation service in June 1988.

Prudence Island Light
Station established: 1852
Present lighthouse built: 1823 (originally in Newport Harbor); Automated: 1972
Construction material: Granite
Height of tower: 25 feet; Height of focal plane: 28 feet
Original optic: Fifth order Fresnel (1857); Present optic: 250 mm
Characteristic: Flashing green every six seconds

Sakonnet River Bridge
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Governor John Langdon House
The Governor John Langdon House, also known as Governor John Langdon Mansion was built in 1784 by John Langdon.
Langdon was a merchant, shipbuilder, American Revolutionary War general, signer of the United States Constitution, and three-term President (now termed governor) of New Hampshire.
The house was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1974.

New Hampshire Bank Building
he New Hampshire Bank Building is a historic bank building that was, until 1998, the oldest bank building in the United States continuously used as a bank . It was built in 1803 for the New Hampshire Bank after a house which was serving as a bank burned in the great fire of 1802. New Hampshire Bank, chartered in 1792, was the first bank in the state.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

Downtown Tunnel
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The Downtown Tunnel on Interstate 264 crosses the Southern Branch of the Elizabeth River in the South Hampton Roads area. It links the independent City of Portsmouth with the independent City of Norfolk. In conjunction with the Berkley Bridge, the Downtown Tunnel connects to Interstate 464 to the City of Chesapeake and a continuation I-264 to the downtown and Waterside areas of Norfolk, and on to Virginia Beach. It is a toll-free facility and is owned and operated by the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT).

"Shark and Sea Bird" by Shark Toof

Portsmouth Raceway Park

Rundlet-May House
The Rundlet-May House was built in 1807 by James Rundlet, who acquired his wealth in the textile trade. Rundlet imported his wallpapers from England and purchased his furniture from local cabinetmakers, whose work was noted for its fine craftsmanship and striking use of veneer.

Port Norfolk Connector
The Port Norfolk Connector in Portsmouth will be a 1.5-mile-long extension of the VA-164 Western Freeway to the southerly Midtown Tunnel approach highway (US-58, the Martin Luther King Freeway), including a new directional interchange (the Pinners Point Interchange) between VA-164 and the US-58 MLK Freeway.

St. John's Church
St. John's Church was built in 1807 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

Portsmouth Athenæum
he Portsmouth Athenæum is an independent membership library, gallery and museum. It preserves material relevant to local history, and sponsors exhibitions, concerts and lectures for its proprietors, scholars and the general public. The building has been listed as the "Portsmouth Athenaeum" on the National Register of Historic Places since 1973.

Hog Island Shoal Light
Station established: 1886 (lightship)
Present lighthouse built: 1901; Automated: 1964
Construction material: Cast iron
Height of tower: 60 feet; Height of focal plane: 54 feet
Original optic: Fifth order Fresnel; Present optic: 250 mm
lens
Characteristic: Three seconds white alternating with three seconds darkness
Fog signal: Two blasts every 30 seconds

Wentworth–Coolidge Mansion

Midtown Tunnel
The Midtown Tunnel crosses the main channel of the Elizabeth River in the South Hampton Roads area. It links the independent City of Portsmouth with the independent City of Norfolk. It carries U.S. Highway 58 and operates without tolls.

USCG Integrated Support Command - Portsmouth
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Red Hook Brewery
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Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, Red Hook's Portsmouth, New Hampshire brewery was built in 1998 to supply the East Coast.

Candy canes
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South Unitarian Universalist Church
The South Unitarian Universalist Church was built in 1824 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

Virginia Sports Hall of Fame and Museum
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Screws
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Smuttynose Brewing Company
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USS Albacore (AGSS-569)
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USS Albacore holds a place in history as the first Navy-designed vessel with a true submarine hull form, in which surface characteristics were subordinated to underwater performance. She possessed no weapon systems; her sole function was to conduct experiments.

Col. William Craford statue
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William Craford was the founder of Portsmouth. Little is known about his personal life, but in 1716 he patented more than 1,100 acres of land in Norfolk County across the Elizabeth River from the port of Norfolk. He co-owned a mill and constructed a wharf in the county, where he was appointed a sheriff in 1725 and commander of the militia in 1748. Craford sat as a member of the House of Burgesses for more than thirty years, beginning 1712. Early in the 1750s he hired a surveyor to lay off the land that he had acquired in 1716 into streets and lots. Probably at his request, in the spring of 1752 the General Assembly established the town of Portsmouth there, and in the summer of that year he began selling lots. Craford had died, probably in Portsmouth, by April 15, 1762, when his will was proved in the Norfolk County Court.

Portsmouth High School Main Sports Field
Home of the Seacoast United Phantoms

Carl Perkins Bridge

Hodgson Brook Bartlett Street Bridge (America's widest bridge)

Norfolk & Western Railway #1134
WacoKidd110 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: WacoKidd110.
Baldwin Locomotive Works built steam locomotive, 2-8-0 configuration

Wentworth-Gardner House

The Rockingham
jbottero (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: jbottero.
Once a hotel, now condos.

Sciotoville Bridge

Butts Hill Fort

'St. Mary's Episcopal Church' by Richard Upjohn
1847

Dyer Island (Rhode Island)
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Hog Island Lighthouse First Order Fresnel Lens
French civil engineer and physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel invented the lens that bears his name in 1822. By combining reflecting and refracting prisms, he allowed lighthouses to focus light that'd normally scatter into a single beam. It allowed them to produce patterns to signal ships at sea, improving coastal navigation and saving countless lives.
Fresnel Lenses are divided into 6 different sizes known as orders, with the 1st being the largest and the 6th being the smallest. This particular Fresnel Lens is the 2nd largest of its kind in the world.

Lamborghini Countach
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Air Force One takeoff from Portsmouth NH
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By: SpiderX22.
Can't find anything about a presidential visit to NH in September 2019, so this may not actually be carrying the president, but it is a USAF Boeing VC-25, also known as Air Force One.

Air Force One (2) from Portsmouth
SpiderX22 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: SpiderX22.
Seeing as it's my second find of this aircraft at Portsmouth, and this one is also taking off in the same direction, I'm not sure if this is just both of the two VC-25As in the USAF inventory, or the same plane twice.

Vaucluse Farm Heliport
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By: Fab.
FAA: 29RI

Welcome to Portsmouth sign

Newington Power Plant
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Schiller Station
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