Word: shipyard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...horse shop-one Negro and one mule," Ingalls built his blacksmith and forging business into Alabama's Ingalls Iron Works, biggest independent steel fabricator in the South. He branched out into shipbuilding, and wartime orders built his Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. of Pascagoula, Miss, into the largest shipyard on the Gulf Coast. Last year the combined enterprises grossed more than...
...that would do it, if any could, was the new $70 million S. S. United States, biggest liner ever built in a U.S. yard, which will make her maiden voyage for the U.S. Lines Co. on July 3. Last week she slipped from her dock in the Newport News shipyard for her first trial...
...British Admiralty placed an order with a Clydebank shipyard for a new yacht for Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh. The new 380-ft. craft, which is expected to be finished in X953) will replace the obsolete 53-year-old royal yacht Victoria and Albert...
...Shipbuilding Co. In it, he made a lasting alliance with Florida Industrialist Louis Wolfson, 40, who had made millions from a grab bag of enterprises, ranging from ships, bridges, movie theaters, and plumbing supplies to selling scrap iron.* For $2,000,000 in 1945, he scooped up a surplus shipyard which cost the Government $20 million, liquidated it and cleared more than...
Into the Rough Atlantic. Just a few weeks before, the Amphitrite's trip had begun like a vacation cruise. Sam Luttrell, a retired Army officer in business in the Virgin Islands, had bought the yacht, a 96-ft. converted subchaser, at a Long Island shipyard. He hired an ex-Air Force officer from Miami for his navigator, and took on four Puerto Ricans as hands. With Gustave Frazer, a brawny Virgin Islander who worked for Luttrell, as engineer, the Luttrell family and their crew set out on a leisurely sea trip back to St. Thomas. They headed south...