I may be wrong but the last time I saw something about the cement ships the
article said they were built for WW1. Missed that one and was way to young
for WW2. Glad too. Rich Fox
-----Original Message-----
From: Nafzger <nafzger@vtc.net>
To: Ed Van Scoy <edvs@uswest.net>; Henry Deaton <hdeaton@verio.com>
Cc: FastmetalBDF@aol.com <FastmetalBDF@aol.com>; kturk@ala.net
<kturk@ala.net>; land-speed@autox.team.net <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Date: Sunday, January 14, 2001 05:20 PM
Subject: Re: Liberty Ships
>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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