Built in 1912 at Lytham Shipbuilding Yard in England, the vessel was originally named the Livingstone and served as a cargo vessel for the British East Africa Rail Company.

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If the plan is successful, it will be an impressive turnaround for the Navy Yard, a center of shipbuilding since the early 19th Century that declined into a windswept home of a police tow pound and warehouses.

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Kvaerner, a European shipbuilding and engineering firm, has agreed to build the first four ships at its Philadelphia yard.

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