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Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). Setting deck beam sections for a new seventy-eight-foot motor torpedo boat at a large Southern shipyard. These fast boats are built of prefabricated parts and sections under roof. When the hulls are ready for launching and fitting they are moved from the plant to nearby water. Higgins Industries

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Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). Setting deck beam sections for a new seventy-eight-foot motor torpedo boat at a large Southern shipyard. These fast boats are built of prefabricated parts and sections under roof. When the hulls are ready for launching and fitting they are moved from the plant to nearby water. Higgins Industries

Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). Setting deck beam sections for a new seventy-eight-foot motor torpedo boat at a large Southern shipyard. These fast boats are built of prefabricated parts and sections under roof. When the hulls are ready for launching and fitting they are moved from the plant to nearby water. Higgins Industries

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Date

01/01/1942

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Contributors

Hollem, Howard R., photographer

United States. Office of War Information.

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38.88868, -77.00472

Google Map of 38.888684, -77.00471900000002

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