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The first submarine built at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard was launched from the Franklin Shiphouse in 1917. Two years earlier this blimp was built in the same shiphouse by a visiting German crew. A century old The Franklin Shiphouse burned to the ground in March 10, 1936 in a hellish blaze.
Photo from the Patch Collection at Strawbery Banke Museum and appears in "Historic Portsmouth" by James Garvin.
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