 Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Hurumende yemubatanidzwa yakatenga Norfolk Navy Yard kubva kuVirginia muna 1801. Nzvimbo itsva yekugadzira ngarava yemubatanidzwa, muchokwadi, ndiyo yakatsiva yaimbova State of Virginia Naval Yard, uko basa revaranda raive nzvimbo yakajairika, uye maitiro aya akaenderera mberi kusvika Hondo Yenyika. Norfolk Navy Yard yaishandisa varanda vakawanda uye vashandi ava vaiva varanda vaipa vanatenzi vavo mari yaigara iripo. Panhambo nenhambo varidzi varanda vakarega nzira dzose dzokunyengera sezvavaiisa pachena vashandi vavo vakapinzwa muuranda pamubhadharo wehurumende. Muenzaniso wakajeka unowanikwa muna 1830 apo Navy Yard Commandant, Commodore James Barron, akaisa vakadzi vaviri vaiva varanda Lucy Henley naRachel Barron pamubhadharo wechikepe, sevarwiwo zvavo uye vakasaina nokuda kwemari yavo, ona mufananidzo muduku. Imwe pfungwa yechiyero chevanhu inogona kuwanikwa mune iyi exert kubva muna 12 Gumiguru 1831 tsamba yaCommodore Lewis Warrington kuBhodi yeVamiriri veNavy mukupindura zvikumbiro zvakasiyana-siyana nevashandi vachena. Tsamba yake inoedza zvose kuvimbisa Dare, muchiedza chokumukira kwazvino kwevaranda kunotungamirirwa naNat Turner, iyo yakaitika musi wa22 Nyamavhuvhu 1831, uye kuti ishande semhinduro kune vanogadzira matombo echiteshi chakaoma avo vakanga vasiya mabasa avo uye vakapomera mainjiniya mukuru weprojekti, Loammi Baldwin, yekuhaya zvisirizvo kwevashandi vevaranda panzvimbo pavo. 