Lukens Steel Company - Industrial Accomplishments

Industrial Accomplishments

• Rolled plates for the Codorus (America’s first iron hulled vessel)
• Boilerplates for riverboats in New Orleans
• Boilerplates for Baldwin Locomotives for the Pennsylvania and other Railroads
• Fireboxes for railroad locomotives
• Battleships armor and light tank armor for the Navy
• Steel for the USS New Jersey
• Antiaircraft-gun bases and other fabricated steel parts for the Army
• Keel plates for the aircraft carriers USS Saratoga and USS Forrestal
• Steel for the Nautilus (first atomic-powered submarine)
• Plates for the hull on flight decks and plane launchers on the USS Enterprise (first nuclear-powered carrier)
• Eye bars to anchor the cables of bridges for the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York harbor
• Plates for the Throgs Neck in New York City

• Plates for the Walt Whitman Bridge in Philadelphia
• Fabricated materials for the USS Savannah (first atomic-powered commercial ship)
• Arched column supports for New York City’s World Trade Center (the only thing left standing after 9/11)
• Steel for ice-crushing bow on the USS Manhattan (largest in the U.S. at its time)
• Two Nimitz-class nuclear aircraft carriers (largest warships in the world)
• Steel for the Coulee Dam
• Steel for the St. Louis Arch