Curtis Bay Coast Guard Yard
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U.S. Coast Guard Yard Curtis Bay
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Coast Guard Yard showing USCGCs Dependable, Abbie Burgess, Willow, and Tybee
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| Nearest city | Baltimore, Maryland |
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| Coordinates | 39°11′59″N 76°34′2″W / 39.19972°N 76.56722°WCoordinates: 39°11′59″N 76°34′2″W / 39.19972°N 76.56722°W |
| NRHP reference # | 83002924 |
| Added to NRHP | August 05, 1983 |
The United States Coast Guard Yard or just Coast Guard Yard is a United States Coast Guard operated shipyard located on Curtis Bay in northern Anne Arundel County, Maryland, just south of the Baltimore city limits. It is the Coast Guard's sole shipbuilding and major repair facility, and part of the Coast Guard's core industrial base and fleet support operations. Its annual budget is $88 million.
For over a century, the United States Coast Guard Yard has built, repaired and renovated ships in Baltimore, Maryland, for the U. S. Coast Guard. It is the service's sole shipbuilding and major repair facility.
The Coast Guard Yard celebrated its centennial in 1999 and recognized the shipyard's outstanding "Service to the Fleet" since being founded on the shores of Arundel Cove off of Curtis Creek and Curtis Bay in south Baltimore and neighboring northern Anne Arundel County in April, 1899. The yard's centennial celebration in 1999 focused customer attention on the shipyard's continued commitment to maritime excellence, honored the yard's past and present work force and sought public recognition of the accomplishment and goals of the Coast Guard's only shipyard.
In April, 1899, the former United States Revenue Cutter Service (RCS) leased 36 acres (150,000 m2) of farmland surrounding Arundel Cove on the northeast shore of Curtis Creek, south of the cove Curtis Bay, in what was then northern Anne Arundel County, Maryland, just south of the Patapsco River and Baltimore Harbor. Two months later, Lieutenant John C. Moore, USRCS, arrived aboard the side-wheeler steamboat "USRC Colfax" to begin establishment a shipyard. Lieutenant Moore set up four small buildings including a lumber mill. The following year saw the arrival of the "USRC Salmon P. Chase", a training ship for the RCS (named for the former Ohio governor, U.S. Senator, Secretary of the Treasury under 16th President Abraham Lincoln and Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase, 1808-1873). The crew set up permanent quarters, marking also the beginning of the United States Coast Guard Academy. Five years later, in 1905, the U.S. Congress authorized the purchase of the land on which the depots sat and with additional surrounding properties ending the previous leasing arrangements.
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