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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 ...
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.
The yard in 1945. The Kaiser Company (Portland, Oregon), commonly known as the Swan Island Shipyard, was a shipyard on Swan Island in Portland, Oregon, United States. [1] [2] It was constructed by the Kaiser Shipbuilding Company in 1942 as part of the U.S. Maritime Commission's Emergency Shipbuilding Program in World War II.
[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]
New York Shipbuilding Corporation (New York Ship), Camden, New Jersey (1899–1967) Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, Virginia; North Florida Shipyards, Inc., Jacksonville, Florida; Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation, Portland, Oregon, part of the Kaiser Shipyards; Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; Pennellville Historic District
She was the first tanker constructed by the Kaiser Shipbuilding Company shipyard at the Swan Island Shipyard in Portland, Oregon. [1] The keel of the Schenectady was laid on 1 July 1942, the completed hull launched on 24 October, and she was declared completed on 31 December, six months after construction began and two and a half months ahead ...
The Kaiser Richmond Field Hospital for the Richmond Shipyards was financed by the U.S. Maritime Commission, and opened on August 10, 1942. By August 1944, 92.2 percent of all Richmond shipyard employees had joined the plan, the first voluntary group plan in the country to feature group medical practice, prepayment and substantial medical ...