Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flat cars.
All parts are prefabricated in this huge Eastern plant which formerly turned out freight cars. Knee brackets ready to be welded between the ship’s deck beams and frames ( or ribs) at the start of the production line. Steel plates of wasteless dimensions stacked ready for laying out, one of the first operations on the production line of multiply cargo ship construction. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland 1941 This plant was formerly used for freight car construction. These stacks of steel plate are in readiness for an uninterrupted flow toward the production line of a large Eastern plant fabricating sections for ships built at a nearby yard. The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flat cars
This welder is joining side plates to angle frames forming section of the propeller shaft tunnels on a new member of Uncle Sam’s “Liberty fleet,” under construction at a large Eastern shipyard.All parts are prefabricated in thus huge Eastern plant which formerly turned out freight cars. Welding is one of the most important advances in shipbuilding during the present century with the torch resulting in immense savings in time, material and weight in the building of ships. This welder is joining side plates to angle frames forming section of the propeller shaft tunnels on a new member of Uncle Sam’s Liberty ships, under construction at a large Eastern shipyard which formerly turned out freight cars.
This plant was formerly used for Pullman car construction.
This worker is carrying the template for a gun foundation from the mold loft to the plate working section. Wooden templates are used as patterns for the laying out of a number of steel plates. These are shell frames and deck brackets ready to be welded between deck beams and frames for ship of the Liberty Fleet under construction at a large Eastern yard. This worker is carrying the templates for a gun foundation from the mold loft to the plate working section.