In the succeeding five years, the Bureau of Yards and docls built or supervised the building of more than 400 advance bases for the Navy in the Atlantic and the Pacific areas, at a cost of $2,135,427,881. The 1940 Navy had no properly equipped advance base other than Pearl Harbor. We removed our barrier of water casks, and took possession of our delightful village, which had been built as if by enchantment."īecause the Navy cannot operate without repairs and supplies, bases are as important as are ships and planes and personnel.
The whole were connected by the walls as above described. "On the 3d November, upwards of four thousand natives, from the different tribes, assembled at the camp with materials for building, and before night they had completed a dwelling-house for myself, and another for the officers, a sail loft, a cooper's shop, and a place for our sick, a bake-house, a guard-house, and a shed for the sentinel to walk under. The houses were to be fifty feet in length, built in the usual fashion of the country, and of a proportioned width and height. They were to take the form of a crescent, to be built on the outside of the enclosure, and to be connected with each other by a wall twelve feet in length and four feet in height. The line on which the houses were to be placed was already traced by our barrier of water casks. In his book, A Voyage to the South Seas in the Years 1812, 1813, and 1814, Commodore Porter wrote that "agreeably to the request of the chiefs, I laid down the plan of the village about to be built. The Essex, which was the first American warship to visit the Pacific, is shown, with her prizes, in this old print, published in London in 1823. Madisonville in Massachusetts Bay in the Marquesas Islands, some 800 miles northeast of Borabora, was established by Commodore David Porter to repair the frigate Essex after its historic voyage around the Horn in 1813.
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