Launching of 10,000 ton ships. The first of 90 sister ships to be built for the Maritime Commission slides off the dock into the Atlantic. Launched just one year from the time construction work started on the shipyards, this 10,000 ton vessel is of the "Virginia Dare" type. In the future these ships will slide down the runway at the rate of one per week. From laying of keel to launching takes only 90 days
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Public domain photograph of Virginia, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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Date
01/01/1941
Location
Wilmington Beach, 34.01878, -77.89860
Source
Library of Congress
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Public Domain