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All the destroyer escorts built there were commissioned during the war; all but three of them before 1945.
Seven of the twelve destroyers were launched and four were commissioned during the war. Hulls for the last two, Castle and Woodrow R. Thompson, laid down in the summer of 1945, were not launched.
The shipyard closed after the war. Today the site is vacant, but may be seen immediately south of today’s New Jersey Turnpike extension to the Holland Tunnel, where it approaches the Newark Bay bridge.
The aerial photos at right were taken in July 1945. Several of the destroyers are visible in various stages of completion.
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