Kaiser Shipyards - Other Details

Other Details

  • Kaiser set several records:
    • The Liberty Ship SS Robert E. Peary was assembled in less than five days as a part of a special competition among shipyards.
    • At the Oregon Shipbuilding Yard on the Columbia River, near Portland, the SS Joseph N. Teal was built in ten days in fall 1942.
  • The Oregon Shipbuilding Yards were responsible for 455 ships.
  • Kaiser recruited from across the United States to work in his yards, hiring women and minorities.
  • Fields Point in Providence, Rhode Island, had a shipyard temporarily run by Kaiser-Walsh when the former management ran into difficulties. The shipyard was closed and sold after the war to a Swedish shipowner who dismantled the shipyard and later erected it in the city of Uddevalla on the west coast of Sweden.

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