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Kaiser set several records: The Liberty ship SS Robert E. Peary was assembled in less than five days as a part of a special competition among shipyards.; At the Oregon Shipbuilding Yard on the Columbia River, near Portland, the Victory ship SS Joseph N. Teal was built in ten days in fall 1942.
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 ...
Henry John Kaiser (May 9, 1882 – August 24, 1967) was an American industrialist who became known for his shipbuilding and construction projects, then later for his involvement in fostering modern American health care.
Vanport construction began in August 1942 to house the workers at the wartime Kaiser Shipyards in Portland and Vancouver, Washington.Vanport—a portmanteau of "Vancouver" and "Portland"—was home to 40,000 people, about 40 percent of them African-American, making it Oregon's second-largest city at the time, and the largest public housing project in the nation.
Kaiser Richmond No. 1 Yard was a new shipyard built to support the demand for ships for World War 2. Kaiser purchased the contact and the yard to build type Ocean ship from the Todd Shipyards in 1940. Kaiser built yard No. 1 to build the Ocean ships. Yard No. 1 was built on unoccupied land with construction starting in December 1940.
Defoe Shipbuilding Company, Bay City, Michigan (1905–1975) ... Portland, Oregon, part of the Kaiser Shipyards; Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii;
[26] [27] Kaiser's dry dock and ship repair facilities were ultimately acquired by the Port of Portland in 1948. [28] Oregon voters approved an $84 million bond to expand the shipyard in the late 1970s. [29] The Port of Portland sold the facilities to shipbuilder Cascade General in 2000 at a cost of $30.8 million. [30] [31]
The Kaiser Corporation itself received a contract to build a new yard on the Columbia River at Portland, Oregon, which would be known as the Oregon Shipbuilding Corp. See also: Type C1 ship#C1-B-early-years for details on the first C1-B contracts awarded in 1939 Liberty ship Joseph M. Terrel at Brunswick, GA c. 1944