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

Photo shows the launch of the liberty ship the USS Zebulon B. Vance on Dec. 6, 1941, by the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company, in Wilmington, NC. (Source: C. Seavey, 2017)
Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches).
Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
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Film copy on SIS roll 32, frame 2080.