Building
The vessel was designed to be a troopship, ordered by the USSB from Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Sparrows Point, Maryland and laid down in 1920. Her intended name was to be Berrien but when she was launched on 17 April 1921 it was as Hawkeye State.
Hawkeye State was a turbine steamship, with four steam turbines driving twin propeller shafts by single reduction gearing. These gave her a speed of up to 18 knots (33 km/h) — as fast as many ocean liners of her era.
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Famous quotes containing the word building:
“There is something about the literary life that repels me, all this desperate building of castles on cobwebs, the long-drawn acrimonious struggle to make something important which we all know will be gone forever in a few years, the miasma of failure which is to me almost as offensive as the cheap gaudiness of popular success.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)
“The real dividing line between early childhood and middle childhood is not between the fifth year and the sixth year—it is more nearly when children are about seven or eight, moving on toward nine. Building the barrier at six has no psychological basis. It has come about only from the historic-economic-political fact that the age of six is when we provide schools for all.”
—James L. Hymes, Jr. (20th century)
“And when discipline is concerned, the parent who has to make it to the end of an eighteen-hour day—who works at a job and then takes on a second shift with the kids every night—is much more likely to adopt the survivor’s motto: “If it works, I’ll use it.” From this perspective, dads who are even slightly less involved and emphasize firm limits or character- building might as well be talking a foreign language. They just don’t get it.”
—Ron Taffel (20th century)