Word: keeled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...carrier's weakened plates and sank the destroyer with two more. The concussion broke several men's feet. Lieut. Commander Ernest Davis was blown overboard. Many men had broken arms and legs. The explosion made a hole in the Yorktown's port side from hangar to keel. A sailor standing waist deep on the Hammann was setting the safety on depth bombs so they would not explode beneath the men struggling in the water. He was still working when the destroyer went down...
Calship broke another world's record last week when it launched the Junipero Serra 41 days after keel-laying. The previous record was 46 days by Calship's archrival, Oregon Shipbuilding Corp...
Today Calship is the No. 2 emergency U.S. shipyard. It cost $20,000,000, covers 175 acres, has 14 shipways and ten outfitting docks. Like most World War II shipyards, it uses assembly-line prefabrication methods. Its first ship, the John C. Fremont, was 273 days from keel to delivery; last week's Joseph McKenna, only 75. In February Calship delivered one ship, in March three, in April five, in May eleven and in June 15. Cried Maritime Commission Vice Chairman Admiral Vickery: "An inspiration to the nation...
...carriers are about the size of U.S.S. Wasp (14,700 tons), 500,000 tons will provide about 34 brand-new carriers. Keel-layings will follow hard on bill-signing, and Chairman Vinson waxes choleric at any hint that shipyards cannot handle the business. This would give the U.S. a total of about 85 good-sized carriers. (A few guessers think that the new carriers will include some of very small tonnage, for fighters only. They would act as scouts and defenders, to protect the big carriers bearing the dive- and torpedo-bombers. If such small carriers are built, the total...
...previous shipbuilding records went by the boards this week when Henry J. Kaiser's amazing Oregon Shipbuilding Corp. delivered a 10,000-ton Liberty freighter to the Maritime Commission only 48 days after the keel was laid...