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The Emergency Shipbuilding Program (late 1940 – September 1945) was a United States government effort to quickly build simple cargo ships to carry troops and materiel to allies and foreign theatres during World War II. Run by the U.S. Maritime Commission, the program built almost 6,000 ships. [ 1][ 2][ 3]
Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation was a World War II emergency shipyard located along the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon, United States. The shipyard built nearly 600 Liberty and Victory ships between 1941 and 1945 under the Emergency Shipbuilding program. [1] It was closed after the war ended. The shipyard, one of three Kaiser Shipyards in ...
North Carolina Shipbuilding Company was a shipyard in Wilmington, North Carolina, created as part of the U.S. Government's Emergency Shipbuilding Program in the early days of World War II. From 1941 through 1946, the company built 243 ships in all, beginning with the Liberty ship SS Zebulon B. Vance , and including 54 ships of the US Navy .
A Victory ship of World War II Liberty ship of World War II. The Emergency Shipbuilding Program built many types of ships to support the war. The most numerous ships were the 2,710 cargo Liberty ships. [25] Liberty ships were built between 1941 and 1945, with a new module assembly process so that about three ships were built every two days. [26]
Stern-mounted 4-in (102 mm) deck gun for use against surfaced submarines, variety of anti-aircraft guns. Liberty ships were a class of cargo ship built in the United States during World War II under the Emergency Shipbuilding Program. Although British in concept, [ 3 ] the design was adopted by the United States for its simple, low-cost ...
During World War II, NNS built ships as part of the U.S. government's Emergency Shipbuilding Program, and swiftly filled requests for "Liberty ships" that were needed during the war. It founded the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company , an emergency yard on the banks of the Cape Fear River and launched its first Liberty ship before the end of ...
The Long Range Shipbuilding program was implemented by the U.S. Maritime Commission shortly after its establishment in 1937 as part of the mandate of the Merchant Marine Act of 1936 which stated that: United States shall have a merchant marine. (a) sufficient to carry its domestic water-borne commerce and a substantial portion of the water ...
Pollock-Stockton Shipbuilding Company was established in 1942 to build ships needed for World War II. As part of the Emergency Shipbuilding Program the US Navy provided some of the capital to start Pollock-Stockton Shipbuilding at Stockton, California. The shipyard was located at San Joaquin River and Stockton Channel, near Louis Park. After ...