still there
>From: "Nafzger" <nafzger@vtc.net>
>Reply-To: "Nafzger" <nafzger@vtc.net>
>To: "Ed Van Scoy" <edvs@uswest.net>, "Henry Deaton" <hdeaton@verio.com>
>CC: <FastmetalBDF@aol.com>, <kturk@ala.net>, <land-speed@autox.team.net>
>Subject: Re: Liberty Ships
>Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 18:16:09 -0700
>
>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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