22 items in this album on 2 pages.
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Publicity photo of the propeller for the first ship built at the CalShip yards, John C Fremont, Los Angeles, California, United States, fall 1941. The women in front are Bettie Ober and Isabel Bork. | The seventh ship constructed by CalShip, Liberty-ship Robert Morris, is christened by Mrs. Margaret McCone, wife of CalShip president John A McCone (left), 28 Jan 1942, Los Angeles, California, United States. | A rudder’s-eye-view of Liberty-ship F A C Muhlenberg on the ways at CalShip, Los Angeles, California, United States, May 1942. | A view of the CalShip yards from a Liberty-ship at the fitting out docks, Los Angeles, California, United States, circa 1942. Note scaffolding of the shipways at left. |
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African-American welder Ernest Enloe Cotton learning from a more experienced colleague while building Liberty Ship Booker T. Washington, California Shipbuilding Corporation yard, Los Angeles, California, United States, Sep 1942 | CalShip journeyman welder Jesse Kermit Lucas and his apprentice, Rodney Gail Chesney, while they were working on Liberty-ship Booker T Washington, Los Angeles, California, United States, Sep 1942. | Liberty-ship Booker T Washington on the ways at CalShip, Los Angeles, California, Sep 1942. Note the pre-fabricated double-bottom sections ready for the next ship to be laid down on these ways (Robert C Grier). | Liberty-ship Booker T Washington sliding down the ways at CalShip, Los Angeles, California, United States, 29 Sep 1942. |
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No sooner had Liberty-ship Booker T Washington slid down the ways at CalShip that the keel of the next ship, Robert C Grier, was laid on the same ways, 29 Sep 1942, Los Angeles, California, United States. | Sponsor of Liberty-ship Booker T Washington, celebrated operatic contralto Marian Anderson at the launching ceremonies at CalShip, Los Angeles, California, United States, 29 Sep 1942. Photo 1 of 2. | Sponsor of Liberty-ship Booker T Washington, celebrated operatic contralto Marian Anderson at the launching ceremonies at CalShip, Los Angeles, California, United States, 29 Sep 1942. Photo 2 of 2. | Liberty-ships at CalShip’s fitting-out docks, May 1943, Los Angeles, California, United States. In the foreground is SS Ignace Paderewski, which only spent 12 days at these docks before being delivered into service. |
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Publicity photo of workers at the CalShip yard with connections to Major League Baseball, circa 1944, Los Angeles, California, United States. [See Comment below] | VC2-S-AP3 ships Lincoln Victory, Panama Victory, Joplin Victory, and Columbia Victory on the ways at CalShip yards, Los Angeles, California, United States, spring 1944. | Victory and Liberty Ships at California Shipbuilding Corporation's yard at Wilmington, California, United States, 14-26 Apr 1944 | Gantry cranes, one each for the fourteen shipways, at the CalShip yard, Los Angeles, California, United States, 1944. |
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Workers arriving at the CalShip yard by ferry, circa 1944, Los Angeles, California, United States. Note the fourteen CalShip shipways. | Christening ceremonies for the Haskell-class attack transport USS Hocking (the Haskell-class were modified Victory-ships) at CalShip, Los Angeles, California, United States, 6 Aug 1944. | Stephen Bechtel, J. A. Krug, and John A. McCone on a tour of the CalShip yard, Los Angeles, California, United States, 14 Dec 1944. Krug was the Chairman of the War Production Board. | Pacific Electric streetcars (the Red Cars) waiting on Ocean Blvd, Long Beach, California, United States, Apr 1945. These cars are labeled “CalShip Special” and are waiting for shipyard workers. |
22 items in this album on 2 pages.