Word: shipyards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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None of these items had been forgotten last week by officials of United Shipyards, Inc. as they prepared to launch the 1,500-ton destroyer Fanning they were building at their Staten Island yard for the U. S. Navy at a cost of $4,000,000. When the morning chosen for the launching arrived, Miss Cora Arinna Marsh of New London, Conn., great-great-granddaughter of Lieut. Nathaniel Fanning, Revolutionary naval hero dressed in her smartest clothes, journeyed to a Manhattan pier and waited to be ferried to Staten Island on an official tug. At the same time more than...
Because they got the job of building R. M. S. Queen Mary, the thrifty Scots of John Brown's Shipyard on the Clyde have just paid a tight little dividend of one shilling (25?) per share, after years of paying none. Last week they got the contract to build what Britons called a "sister ship" to the Queen Mary until leading London newsorgans declared that...
...other sciences that have gone into the making of Queen Mary, astronomy was added last week. Astronomers and meteorologists agreed that one of the highest spring tides could be expected at about 2 p. m. to float the great Cunard White Star liner from John Brown's shipyard down the shallow Clyde...
...stern. Six lesser tugs stood by. At 9:30 a. m. the bridge gave the first order: "Let go!" Then down to the engine room went the signal DEAD SLOW ASTERN. All up & down the river whistles were tooting, crowds cheering. But there was hardly a sound from the shipyard workmen. As the steel cables snaked ashore they saw their 7,000 jobs go out with the ship.* The problem now was to move a ship a fifth of a mile long and 118 ft. wide down 14 miles of goosenecked channel only 300 feet broad. In at least three...
Sliding the ship into the slot cut for her on the opposite shore at the time of her launching (TIME, Oct. 1, 1934) and turning her downstream was performed without incident. Less than half a mile below the shipyard the Clyde bends in a double S. There came the crisis. With an angry crack the stern cable to one tug broke. Before another could be made fast, Queen Mary's bow was out of the channel, moving like a relentless cliff of steel shoreward...