Word: pascagoula
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. yard on the muddy "Singing River" at Pascagoula, Miss., where 11,000 men & women worked at 1943's hectic peak, only 8,000 worked this week. Within a year the last of the 73 big C-3 freighters for the United States Maritime Commission, and the special type craft for the Navy would be ready for delivery, and Ingalls' war work would be near its end. All this suited Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. just fine...
When the Maritime Commission in 1937 set out to rejuvenate"the creaking U.S. Merchant Marine, Ingalls saw his chance to get into shipbuilding with a splash. In 1939 he formed the subsidiary Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp., and spent some $500,000 for a yard at Pascagoula. It was a good investment. He landed a $10 million contract for four C-3 type freighters. The first of the batch, the Exchequer for the American Export Lines, was the largest all-welded merchant ship ever built in the U.S. When war came Pascagoula got all the business it could handle...
...Work in shipyards continued at breakneck speed, with emphasis on tankers, landing craft and big, fast transports. At Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. an 18,000-ton, all-welded attack transport slid into the Singing River, the 54th ship to be christened at Pascagoula, Miss, in 56 months...
...Ingalls Iron Works' shrewd, crusty, hard-working president, who likes to say that he founded his business in 1910 "with a nigger, a mule and a wooden crane. ..." Pleased with his new sidelines, Father Ingalls two years ago agreed to build the big new yard at Pascagoula for the express purpose of getting part of the $1,000,000,000 Maritime Commission program...
...Ingalls will have to build many more ships to make good its boast that its new methods will revolutionize U. S. shipbuilding. In contrast with the machine-gun clamor of most shipyards, Pascagoula's noises are a sibilant hiss. Biggest plug for welding is the fact that one welder can do the job of a four-man riveting team-a big saving in labor (40% of shipyard cost). Ingalls welds complete stern assemblies, bow sections, etc. up to 75 tons on platforms in the yard, swings them into place with big gantry cranes. It reverses old-line shipbuilding techniques...