Ed,
Toward the end of the second war, some Liberty Ships were cast concrete.
There used to be one beached on the coast just west of Watsonville, Ca. but
it was broken up in a bad storm.
HOWARD
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Van Scoy" <edvs@uswest.net>
To: "Henry Deaton" <hdeaton@verio.com>
Cc: <FastmetalBDF@aol.com>; <kturk@ala.net>; <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2001 5:36 PM
Subject: Re: Liberty Ships
> Weren't Liberty Ships concrete?
> Ed
>
>
> Henry Deaton wrote:
>
> > When my stepdad was 17 he took a welding class in Oklahoma then
hitchhiked
> > out to Richmond, CA and got a job welding on those Liberty ships. He was
> > welding these big plates that had to be wedged into place. He said that
on
> > his first shift his welds kept breaking apart and the crew working with
him
> > would have to jam the steel plates back into place again. He told them
to
> > "stay with me boys, and I'll get the hang of it" and he finally did.
After
> > about 6 months or so in Richmond he joined up and served in North Africa
> > and India.
> >
> > He and my mom were out for a visit a few years back and we drove through
> > Richmond and looked at where he used to work. I'd seen the big old
cranes
> > they built the Liberty ships with for years, but didn't have any idea
they
> > were a part of history until that visit. It was a couple years later
that I
> > found out about and visited the Liberty Ship Museum in Sausalito.
There's
> > also a restored Liberty Ship somewhere around here, but I don't know if
> > it's open to the public or not.
> >
> > Henry Deaton
> > SF, CA
> >
> > At 11:47 AM 1/14/2001 -0700, Ed Van Scoy wrote:
> > >FastmetalBDF@aol.com wrote:
> > >
> > > > >SNIP< " I like to check out welding supply places, among other
> > > places like
> > > > speed shops, etc., and they had it at this weld supply house right
next
> > > to where
> > > > all those
> > > > Liberty ships were built, during WW II, by Kaiser Shipbuilding, in
> > > > Richmond, California ."
> > >
> > >Wasn't it real hard to weld on those Liberty Ships ;-)
> > >Ed
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