Caption | 8 Dec 1941 Headlines in the Richmond (California) Daily Independent announcing the Pearl Harbor Attack from the day before. Note the sub-headline on the launching of a ship at the Todd Shipyard. ww2dbase | |||||||||
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8 Mar 2022 05:12:06 PM
The “Todd Will Launch Ship” announcement concerned the SS Ocean Valley, launched 9 Dec 1941. This was the eighth merchant ship launched from the Todd-California Shipyard, soon to be renamed the Kaiser-Richmond Shipyards. Ocean Valley was an Ocean-class ship based on a British design that served until 1969.