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Newport News, Virginia. Placing a floor section in a C-3. Several floor sections, already installed, can be seen in the foreground. Workmen are standing in what will be the lowest part of the hold of the ship, near the keel

Newport News, Virginia. Placing a floor section in a C-3. Several floo...

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Production. Subchasers. An old shipwright and a son who came up in the same trade inspect a timber that will be used in the keel of a new subchaser. The father had retired some years ago, but came back to give his skill and experience to an Eastern shipyard. He is now foreman of the keel department and the son is foreman of the mill department

Production. Subchasers. An old shipwright and a son who came up in the...

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Production. Minesweepers. Sturdy wooden ribs, which have been shaped on molds, are moved up for placement on the keel of a new minesweeper. Part of the keel and stem of the new vessel are shown in the background. Location: an Eastern shipyard. Gibbs Cass Company

Production. Minesweepers. Sturdy wooden ribs, which have been shaped o...

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Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. A Negro shipyard worker. Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Setting the keel blocks

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. A Negro shipyard w...

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Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Preparations for launching a ship. Driving wedges to lift the ship from the keel blocks

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Preparations for l...

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Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Burning a flat keel plate

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Burning a flat kee...

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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

Not as easy as it looks. The men may be seated, but drilling boat hole...

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Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Preparations for launching a ship. Keel blocks in forward part of the ship

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Preparations for l...

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Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Preparations for launching a ship. Driving wedges to lift the ship from the keel blocks

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Preparations for l...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Biography of a Liberty Ship. Birth of a ship. Less than five months from keel laying to launching ceremony was the record set by the Patrick Henry. This time is being reduced to 60 days in the construction of her sister ships of the "Liberty Ship" design. This standard design was selected by the Martime Commission to meet the need for ships that can be built in existing yards in minimum time with the additional purpose of conserving materials vitally needed for the war production effort. Prefabrication of sections in special plants, replacing of riveting wherever possible by welding and other new departures all contribute to the speed of construction and saving of material and dead weight in these ships which are already proving their worth in the war on the Axis

Biography of a Liberty Ship. Birth of a ship. Less than five months fr...

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Ship launching in Portland, Maine. The keel is laid for a cargo-carrying ship at a large New England shipyard which sent eight vessels into the water at a mass launching on August 16, 1942--the greatest tonnage ever to leave a Maine dock in one day

Ship launching in Portland, Maine. The keel is laid for a cargo-carryi...

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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

Launching of 10,000 ton ships. The first of 90 sister ships to be buil...

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Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. A new vessel has just moved off these ways, and the keel is being assembled for yet another, in a large Eastern yard. The bottom and side shell plating and the inner tank sections are being assembled. Another new keel has been laid on the ways to the left. All parts are prefabricated in this huge Eastern plant which formerly turned out freight cars. The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flat cars

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. A new vessel has just moved off these w...

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Production. Submarine chasers. Getting out keel timbers for 110-foot subchasers at an Eastern boatyard. The big oak pieces are shaped with a saw and adze, then planed to a beautiful smooth finish. Each keel is a load for fourteen men. Marine Construction Company, Stamford, Connecticut

Production. Submarine chasers. Getting out keel timbers for 110-foot s...

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Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Welding a deck to a vertical keel

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Welding a deck to ...

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Antiaircraft gun carriage. The leveling yoke for a thirty-seven millimeter antiaircraft gun carriage is cleaned in this bath before being painted. This yoke puts the gun on an even keel no matter what type of terrain the carriage rests upon. War program production scene in a Pennsylvania heavy industry plants now converted to the production of vitally needed military equipment. AETNA. Ellwood City, Pennsylvania

Antiaircraft gun carriage. The leveling yoke for a thirty-seven millim...

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Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). Prefabricated frame sections of a new seventy-eight-foot wooden torpedo boat are joined to the keel at a Southern shipyard. Many speedy motor-driven fighters of this class are built here indoors, of ready-made sections. The completed hulls are then moved to nearby water for launching and fitting. Higgins Industries

Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). Prefabricated frame sections...

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Production. Minesweepers. The stem of a new minesweeper is fitted to its keel in an Eastern shipyard. Painstaking, skilled craftsmen fit every joint to exact dimensions. Gibbs Cass Company

Production. Minesweepers. The stem of a new minesweeper is fitted to i...

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Bethlehem Fairfield shipyards, near Baltimore, Maryland. Construction of a Liberty ship. On the second day all horizintal beams have been laid and keel blocks set at the proper pitch. Keel plates are being put in place

Bethlehem Fairfield shipyards, near Baltimore, Maryland. Construction ...

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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

Launching of 10,000 ton ships. The first of 90 sister ships to be buil...

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Antiaircraft gun carriage. A leveling socket for a thirty-seven millimeter antiaircraft gun carriage is machined in a turret lathe. The leveling assembly permits the gun to be kept on an even keel on all types of terrain. War program production scene in one of Pennsylvania's heavy industry plants now converted to the production of vitally needed military equipment. AETNA. Ellwood CIty, Pennsylvania

Antiaircraft gun carriage. A leveling socket for a thirty-seven millim...

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Production. Minesweepers. Planing down a keel section for one of Uncle Sam's new minesweepers. The experience which this carpenter gained in house construction comes in handy in the shipyard where he is now employed. Gibbs Cass Company

Production. Minesweepers. Planing down a keel section for one of Uncle...

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Production. Subchasers. The foreman of the keel department of an Eastern shipyard does a final planing job on a timber for a new subchaser. He has been a shipbuilder all his life and is well known for the fishing boats he has turned out. He came out of retirement to give his skill and experience to a yard that had to train many green hands in a short time

Production. Subchasers. The foreman of the keel department of an Easte...

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Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Preparations for launching a ship. Driving wedges to lift the ship from the keel blocks

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Preparations for l...

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Production. Submarine chasers. Getting out keel timbers for 110-foot subchasers at an Eastern boatyard. The big oak pieces are shaped with a saw and adze, then planed to a beautiful smooth finish. Each keel is a load for fourteen men. Marine Construction Company, Stamford, Connecticut

Production. Submarine chasers. Getting out keel timbers for 110-foot s...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Preparations for launching a ship. Keel blocks underneath the ship

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Preparations for l...

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Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. A new vessel has just moved off these ways, and the keel is being assembled for yet another in a large Eastern shipyard. The bottom and side shell plating and the inner tank sections are being assembled. All parts are prefabricated in this huge Eastern plant which formerly turned out freight cars. The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flat cars

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. A new vessel has just moved off these w...

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Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Preparations for launching a ship. Keel blocks underneath the ship

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Preparations for l...

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Production. Launching of the SS Booker T. Washington. America needs ships to carry its guns and tanks and planes to the battlefronts of the world. A few minutes after the SS Booker T. Washington, first Liberty Ship named for a Negro, was launched at the California Shipbuilding Corporation's Wilmington yards, workmen were busy laying the keel for a new ship in America's growing Victory Fleet

Production. Launching of the SS Booker T. Washington. America needs sh...

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Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. A new vessel has just moved off these ways, and the keel is being assembled for yet another, in a large Eastern yard. The bottom and side shell plating and the inner tank sections are being assembled. Another new keel has been laid on the ways to the left. All parts are prefabricated in this huge Eastern plant which formerly turned out freight cars. The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flat cars

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. A new vessel has just moved off these w...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Newport News, Virginia. Hull of a C-3. The keel has recently been laid and the installation of a double-bottom section is in progress

Newport News, Virginia. Hull of a C-3. The keel has recently been laid...

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Production. Minesweepers. Sturdy wooden ribs, which have been shaped on molds, are moved up for placement on the keel of a new minesweeper. Part of the keel and stem of the new vessel are shown in the background. Location: an Eastern shipyard. Gibbs Cass Company

Production. Minesweepers. Sturdy wooden ribs, which have been shaped o...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Bethlehem Fairfield shipyards, near Baltimore, Maryland. Construction of a Liberty ship. Laying of the keelplates to which will be attached the vertical keel

Bethlehem Fairfield shipyards, near Baltimore, Maryland. Construction ...

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Bethlehem Fairfield shipyards, near Baltimore, Maryland. Construction of a Liberty ship. Engineer Gorman in the foreground lining up keelblocks with his transit and signalling to workmen as they set the blocks. This is the first step in laying a new keel

Bethlehem Fairfield shipyards, near Baltimore, Maryland. Construction ...

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