Yeah, I remember one off the coast of Los Gatos Ca. also. It was Cement
Ed (still trying to raise amps to be able to run a bead on cement)
Nafzger wrote:
> 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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