28 items in this album on 2 pages.
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Bechtel photo of the site for the Maritime Commission shipyard granted to them that would become Marinship, 24 Mar 1942, Sausalito, California, United States. Photo 1 of 3. | Bechtel photo of the site for the Maritime Commission shipyard granted to them that would become Marinship, 24 Mar 1942, Sausalito, California, United States. Photo 2 of 3. | Bechtel photo of the site for the Maritime Commission shipyard granted to them that would become Marinship, 24 Mar 1942, Sausalito, California, United States. Photo 3 of 3. | Preliminary filling and grading of the Marinship site, Sausalito, California, United States, May 1942. Left edge is the start of the administration building and the intersection of Bridgeway at Ebb Tide. |
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Marinship yard under construction three months after its contract was awarded to Bechtel Corp., 28 Jun 1942, Sausalito, California, United States. The first keel had been laid one day earlier. | 1942 aerial view of Sausalito, California, United States with Wolfback Ridge behind the town and the early stages of the Marinship yard at right. The Golden Gate Bridge is out of frame to the left. | Northern Sausalito, California, United States, with the filled marshlands in preparation for construction of the Marinship building ways, 1942. | Liberty ship John Muir sliding down the ways at Marinship, Sausalito, California, United States, 22 Nov 1942. John Muir was the fourth ship built at the Marinship yard. |
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Four Marinship welders, Sausalito, California, United States, Aug 1943. | 1944 chart created by Marinship Shipbuilding illustrating the flow of materials and labor in the building of the Type T2 tankers. | A ship’s boiler being delivered to the Marinship yard, Sausalito, California, United States, circa 1944. Boilers were made on the San Francisco Peninsula and trucked across the Golden Gate Bridge to Marinship. | Aerial view of Marinship yard with six ways with tanker hulls under construction, eight tankers at the fitting out docks, and worker housing at the top, Sausalito, California, United States, 1944. |
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Night shift at the Marinship yard, Sausalito, California, United States, circa 1944. | Color photo of work underway at the Marinship yard, Sausalito, California, United States, 15 Apr 1944. Oil tanker Mission San Carlos has her bow draped in bunting for her launch later that day. | Marinship Yard vice-president and general manager William E. Waste offering dignitary remarks during the christening of yard flagship Tamalpais, 29 Oct 1944, Sausalito, California, United States. | The Escambia-class fleet oiler Tamalpais being christened during Flagship Day at Marinship, Sausalito, California, United States, 29 Oct 1944. |
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The Escambia-class fleet oiler Tamalpais being launched at Marinship, Sausalito, California, United States, 29 Oct 1944. | The Escambia-class fleet oiler Tamalpais just after she was launched and being moved to the fitting out docks, Marinship, Sausalito, California, United States, 29 Oct 1944. | Aerial view of the Marinship Shipbuilding yard, Sausalito, California, United States, 6 Dec 1944. Note the six tankers under construction on the ways and six others being fitted out at the piers. Photo 1 of 5. | Aerial view of the Marinship Shipbuilding yard, Sausalito, California, United States, 6 Dec 1944. Note the six tankers under construction on the ways and six others being fitted out at the piers. Photo 2 of 5. |
28 items in this album on 2 pages.