Word: keels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Henry J. Kaiser's Oregon Shipbuilding Corp. sprang a production miracle and splashed a 10,500-ton Liberty ship into the water ten days after keel laying (TIME, Oct. 5), the tough, hard-hitting gangs in Kaiser's Richmond (Calif.) Shipbuilding Corp. yard No. 2 sputtered "What the hell has Oregon got that we haven...
Fourteen days from keel laying to delivery date is indeed a record of which American shipbuilders can well be proud. This seems a far advance from the 47 years required to construct the U.S.S. Alabama. Originally intended as a storeship, her keel was laid at Portsmouth, Va. Navy Yard in 1817 but not until April 23, 1864 was she launched. A record of 47 years under construction...
...Henry Kaiser's Portland shipyards, the President watched the launching of the Joseph N. Teal-first ship in the world ever to hit the water ten days after keel laying (TIME, Oct. 5). He and bald Henry Kaiser sat in the open automobile, atop a wooden ramp, while torches burned through the steel plates that held the Teal in place. Down slid the ship. Mrs. Boettiger swung a champagne bottle so hard that she was drenched...
Last week, just ten days after its keel was laid, Anna Roosevelt Boettiger smashed a bottle of California champagne on the nose of the Joseph N. Teal (named after an Oregon industrial pioneer), sent it down the ways 87% complete, with steam in its boilers. Three days, 23 hours, 30 minutes later the Joe Teal, fitted out, was delivered. Son Edgar had served notice that anyone who meant to take a record from him would have to hump, meaning hump...
...Liberty launchings, a day set aside by President Roosevelt for a "Salute to the Victory Fleet." The Kaisers swore nothing had been sacrificed in making their record. A stunt they had done, but not an impossible stunt with modern methods of shipbuilding in which the beginning is not really keel laying, in which the job done on the ways is not so much one of building as of assembling sections of ships prefabricated in great shops behind the ways. The Kaisers were able to point to ten other Liberty launchings at Oregon Ship in September, the best month...