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...Admiral Vickery promised delivery of 23,000,000 tons of shipping by Jan. 1, 1944 (but not more than eight million tons this year). The tight schedule of 105 days from keel laying to delivery of Liberty ships was cut last week to 94 days by one yard; will soon be under 105 days in all yards...
...some respects the whole vast program rated an E. Speed record of World War I Hog Island ships: 234 days from keel laying to commissioning. For Liberty ships: 105 days...
...hauled & hoisted to the ways and welded into a complete hull. In shops welding is quicker than in the ways, since a welder can easily reach difficult spots and never has to weld over his head with molten steel drops raining down on his mask and shoulders. Formerly, a keel was laid in the ways and riveters started at the middle and worked slowly toward each end of the ship, because the plates had to be staggered and overlapped in an intricate patchwork. The 530,000 rivets in a typical 1918 freighter filled perhaps as many...
From the Indiana's keel-laying to launching only 24 months had elapsed. She was the latest of a class which now has five brand-new battleships in the water, a force which not only has enough speed to run circles around the other 15 U.S. battleships, but enough gunpower to blow them out of the water. When the Indiana joins the fleet, twelve to 14 months from now, armed with nine 16-in. guns, 20 five-inchers, the latest anti-aircraft cannon, she will find four sisters already in service. Two of them (North Carolina and Washington...
With 250-350 locally recruited employes, Cohen and Crowley put on one of the quickest construction jobs Georgia had ever seen. Empire drove the first pile on May 31, poured some $800,000 into its Savannah Shipyards. Last week three shipways, four craneways were nearly complete. The keel for the first of twelve Victory ships will be laid about Dec. 1-less than two months after the Maritime Commission, finally relenting, granted the contract. Also under way: a $1,500,000 housing project for Savannah's 4,000 prospective shipyard employes...