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Not as easy as it looks. The men may be seated, but drilling boat holes in the keel of a Navy motor-launch is no child's play. The boat is under construction in the shipwright shop at eastern Navy yard

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Not as easy as it looks. The men may be seated, but drilling boat holes in the keel of a Navy motor-launch is no child's play. The boat is under construction in the shipwright shop at eastern Navy yard

Trimming a fast one. A skilled workman fits the beading around the cockpit of a fast motor launch intended for the U.S. fleet. Boats of this type are being turned out rapidly at an eastern Navy yard

Manpower. Boatyard workers. An electric arc welder at a large Southern boatyard examines a bead he has just run on a steel ramp boat which will be used in making beach landings of men, tanks, and other equipment on hostile shores. The yard is also turning out motor torpedo boats, smaller wooden ramp boats and other Navy craft. Higgins Industries

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard) This man is a structural steel worker, one of the thousands of highly skilled workers whose brains and brawn are fashioning for Uncle Sam's new two-ocean Navy, the finest fleet of warcraft the world has ever seen

[Military construction in northern Virginia: men sitting in blanket boats strapped together on the Potomac River]

Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). A Negro carpenter working on the framing of a motor torpedo boat at a large Southern shipyard. These fast seventy-eight-footers are built indoors of prefabricated parts and sections. When the hulls are ready for launching and fitting they are moved from the plant to nearby water. Higgins Industries

A black and white photo of a man working on a piece of wood. Office of War Information Photograph

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). This is one one-thousandth of the manpower engaged in the construction of Uncle Sam's new 70,000,000 battleship the USS Alabama, which is scheduled to be launched in February, 1942. Approximately 3000 men are working to complete this mighty mistress of the seas. The men above are skilled shipfitters

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). This is one one-thousandth of the manpower engaged in the construction of Uncle Sam's new 70,000,000 battleship the USS Alabama, which is scheduled to be launched in February, 1942. Approximately 3000 men are working to complete this mighty mistress of the seas. The men above are skilled shipfitters

Not as easy as it looks. The men may be seated, but drilling boat holes in the keel of a Navy motor-launch is no child's play. The boat is under construction in the shipwright shop at eastern Navy yard

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01/01/1941
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Palmer, Alfred T., photographer
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Keel Bach - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Richmond, California. Permanente Metals Corporation, shipbuilding division, yard number two. Pietro Cressano worked at the yard for seven months, and was in building construction work before that. He was born in America but both parents were born in Italy

Clovis, New Mexico. Abbie Caldwell, employed in the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad yard to clean out the potash cars. Mrs. Caldwell's husband works in the roundhouse and her son is in the Army

Workers entering plant at afternoon change of shift. Electric Boat Works, Groton, Connecticut

A black and white photo of a group of men working on a tree. Office of War Information Photograph

Filling Ground Squirrel Holes. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Sec. Wilbur inspecting S-45 at Wash. Navy Yard, 61225

N.Y. Motor Boat Club House, on the Hudson, New York

Hauling in the trawl aboard a Portuguese drag boat off Cape Cod, Massachusetts

A United States tanker torpedoed by an Axis submarine. Despite a raging fire which sent columns of black, oily smoke billowing into the sky, crew members were able to bring the flames under control and the tanker was towed to port by a United States Naval ship. The tanker is now in an east coast ship yard being repaired and soon will be back in active service aiding the nation against its enemies

Lido, flying boat Clio. Flying boat from the Lido

Dr. Upton Scott House, Stable, 4 Shipwright Street, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, MD

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new york state new york brooklyn safety film negatives men boat holes boat holes keel navy motor launch navy motor launch child construction shipwright shop shipwright shop yard brooklyn navy yard brooklyn navy yard new york ny navy yard 1940 s 40 s us navy united states history library of congress