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Were they concrete??? I was taken on a tour of a surviving Liberty Ship in
San Francisco by my underwater colleagues
out there and I think it was all metal. Just asking.
Bob Schuyler
At 11:30 AM 12/11/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>The famous "Liberty Ships" of WWII were concrete construction. Many of
>them were built in my home town of Wilmington, NC, and up until the
>1960's a mothball fleet still remained anchored in the river there. A
>few were refurbished for use during the Vietnam War, if memory serves me
>correctly. Sometime during that period they were moved to Norfolk Naval
>Base. I saw them there a couple of years ago.
>These ships were launched sideways. I remember a wonderful photo of
>the ceremonial first launching in which all the dignitaries who had come
>to christen the ship were thoroughly drenched by a huge backsplash when
>the ship hit the water broadsided.
>
>Kathryn Kalmanson
>Head of Reference
>Blackwell Library
>Salisbury University
>Salisbury, MD 21801
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> >>> [log in to unmask] 12/10/03 09:51PM >>>
>Hello Trish Fernandez & all,
>
>jb} Not only did the industry make block .. but during WWII the
>industry molded ships hulls and
>decks of concrete and they served well as cargo carriers.
>
>jb
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Robert L. Schuyler
University of Pennsylvania Museum
33rd & Spruce Streets
Philadelphia, PA l9l04-6324
Tel: (215) 898-6965
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