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Although it was small. The Union already had a navy when the US Civil War began. They quickly used their safe ship yards and substantial material resources to begin a rapid increase in the size of their navy. The South had no navy to speak of at all. They relied heavily on the purchase of warships from Great Britain. Few harbors were safe for Confederate ship building.

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