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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