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MJGQffl Sept. 1, 1942 PUBLISHED FOR THE EMPLOYEES OF THE NORTH CAROLINA SHIPBUILDING COMPANY Vol I, No. 3 5 YARD WINS MARITIME AWARD 5 O o -fy S! Tn th or Aim nn the luimehinff Broughton, Mrs. Broughton, Admiral Emory S. Land, Mrs. Chanler, Captain Roger Williams, Mrs. Williams, Mr. Chanler. What We Are Building And ; Backbone of the fleet of 2,300 ships to be delivered before the end of 1943 are the 1,600 Liberty ships, America's mass-production emergency cargo vessels for war service. Scores of the more than 200 which had been placed into service by September 1 are already Veterans of the war, and performance records have been made available. Most frequently compared with the squat, angular Hog Islander of the last war the ship once called the fugly duckling" has made the comparison ividious. The Hog Islander, mass-production type of World War 1, formed but a small portion of the fleet built at the end of the last war. Of the 2,316 hulls which slid down the ways of the nation's yards 110 of the A-type Hog Islanders ana twelve oi xne o-type were delivered to the Emergency Fleet Corporation, -c : : However, despite the minute ness of the number of its type delivered, a method of ship con struction was born with the Hog Islander, which, with variations, is now being used to construct Liberty ships. v Hog Island was transformed from a swamp to a , bristling , latticework L qf .fifty shipways, ' supplied ' by "eight miles of railroad track and eigh . teen miles of road, where 80,000 workers used anew construction process fabrication. Hog Island was the' first of the ship as sembly plants. - , - ;" Eighty-eight steel fabricating - plants, from Montreal to Kansas City, turned , out-plates for . the ; , Hog Islanders, wnile 4,000 manu- faeturin plants; fromsall ove the United States supplied the tchinery and, cear First keei - ; to be laid was thit o the QuinV 'conck, ; on j Fctmiry ; 12.V 1918, ' which V&s launched: on August A HAPPY OCCASION stand nrior to the "M" award between 1917 and 1922, but Parent Yard Repeats The Newport News Shipyard received notification this week that it had been awarded for the second i consecutive - time the Navy E pennant for excellency in production. ' Admiral H. A. Wiley, chair man of the Navy board for pro duction awards, informed Homer L.' Ferguson, president, that the award granted for the. oast six months' period, is, being renewed. A white star will be added; sig nifying renewal of the award. Something To Shoot At -The Oregon Shipbuilding Com Eany has just set a new record y delivering a ; Liberty s Ship thirty-one days after her keel was laid. The feat" trimmed fif teen . days off the old , national record of forty-six days held by tne same rompany. w, -4 ' The : keel of the ; ship; the Pierre .S. DuPont. wai laid on August l.VTwenty-six days later she slid down the ways only to spend slightly less than five days at the outfitting ; docks before Why ceremonies are Got. J. Melville 68 Ships Built In Last Month Are Delivered The Maritime Commission has just announced that American shipyards delivered 68 new cargo vessels and large tankers dur ing August. The total in dead weight tons was given as 753,600. The production for August fell below that of July when the na tion's yards delivered 71 ships totaling 790,300 deadweight tons. West Coast yards regained the lead by delivering 31 ships. At lanuc voasi yaros, wnicn iea last month, delivered 24 ships, and Gulf Coast yards turned out 12. One ore carrier was com pleted on the Great Lakes. The California Shipbuilding Comnanv. Wilmington. Califor nia, delivered 11 ships, the larg est single Producer for the month. - The average time for the de liveries in all yards building Lib erty Ships was 83.3 days from keel laying to delivery, the av erage for one yard was 74.25 days for the 4 ships delivered. A great majority of the copy in the North Carolina .Shipbuild er is contributed by workers in the yard. It is everybody's paper, so the editors will welcome any suggestions or gladly receive any copy which may be submit ted to their off ice.S - . ' v MB' . ; : -. " . , I Admiral Land Presents "M" Pennant To Worth Carolina Shipbuilding Co. On Sunday afternoon, August 30, in a gala but brief ceremony before more tnan ployees, our yard was formally presented with the United States Maritime Commission's coveted "M" Pennant for exceptional achievement in ship -production by Admiral Emory S. Land, Chairman of Admiral Land was introduced by Governor J. Mel ville Broughton in a short talk in which he praised the work done by Wilmington and the people of the ship yard in meeting the government's demand for ships. He paid high tribute to "when the government decided to build Liberty freight ers, it didn't get a man who delivered blueprints of how it was to be done. It got a man who could build and bolivar oruna in f ho ahrvrta nntt-t sible time. That man was Ad miral Emory S. Land." Admiral Land then spoke brief ly congratulating the workers and the officials of the Company for the great piece of work they had done since the beginning of the yard back on February 3, 1941 and presented the challenge which lies ahead. He said that "when . President Roosevelt first made his demand for increased ship production in the yards throughout the nation, American shipbuilders rolled up their sleeves and started. They didn't wait for Pearl Harbor. "This true American spirit of determination sprang from the neaix oi every xignung man wno could run a lathe, every patriotic citizen who could hold a welding torch or a rivet gun. A fighting America increased its enthusi asm with the passing of the vicious attack upon Pearl Har bor, and later upon the heroic defenders of the Philippine Is lands. "The nation's shipyard workers not only proved that the Presi dents demands for increased ton nage could be met, but by sheer determination and all out effort they have more than met that demand. For your part, I con gratulte the fifteen thousand workers of the North Carolina Shipbuilding Yards who have played a large part in the United Nation s war effort. He also said that this yard here has been established by "guts and spirit" and that "ship building efficiency is made up of two essentials time and cost. We have evidence now that when the .'election returns' and all the yards throughout the United States are, finally counted, the name of the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company will be like ' Abou Ben Adam it will lead all the rest. My heartfelt congratulations in advance." , . Captain Roger' Williams ac cepted the pennant for the yard ana in aoing so saia: - "Admiral jLAna it gives me great pleasure to accept the 'M Pennant and the Victory Fleet Mag on behalf of the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company. I am especially; glad to welcome Governor Broughton and our other guests to the yard on this day. "Fourteen thousand five hun dred and seventy-five of us have come from; the f arms : and the town of North Carolina and other states to work together in build ing Liberty. Ships. W j had 1 to learn as we went along -ana tne 'IT penant :i proves . that i we learned well. . "It is a source of great satis 15,000 visitors and em the Maritime Commission. Admiral Land in saying that 1 1 Carolina Shipbuilders have earn ed this award not for what the Maritime Commission asked, but because we have done even more. We intend keeping on doing just that." As a result of the award the yard has the right to fly the "Mw Pennant and the Victory Fleet Flag and every employee has the privilege to wear the Maritime Labor Merit badge which is symbolic of a company being on the Maritime Commis sion's production honor list. The first badge was presented by Admiral Land to A. B. Riggs of the Painters Department, who expressed the feeling of every shipyard worker when he said: "We intend to keep on build ing ships as long as the govern- uicui naiiM wciu sy icv a cut uvi our part and buy more bonds so we may have the chance to do just that." ' '. Along with Mr. Riggs were six other employees who received the merit badges. They were L. S. Everett, Warehouse; T. T. Fisher, Steel Storage; H. F. Howie, Fitters; W. T. Hague, Pipe Shop; James Evans, Erec tors: u. sr. Btaiiings, Angle smiths. All these men were chos en by lot to represent everybody in the yard. The Pennant is awarded to any shipyard when it consecu tively delivers Liberty Ships in to service in 105 days or less from keel laying to delivery from all its shipways. From our nine ways we have delivered that number of ships with the time of construction of each of them ranging from 105 days to 72 days, a record for the yard. Our yard is the second of its type on the Atlantic Coast to be awarded the "M" Pennant The first was won by the Bethlehem Fairfield yard at Baltimore about a month ago. The Pennant is presented for a period of six months. In order for a shipyard to keep it in its possession a record must be maintained comparable to that which was first set. If such a pace is kept, a star is added to the Pennant. If not, the right to fly the flag is revoked. In this way the award acts as a challenge to every tnan end wo man in the yard to better the record and obtain; an additional star, Following t h e - presentation ceremony, our Hull No,. 33, the ROGER WILLIAMS was launch ed. The ' ship was sponsored by Miit William Chanler f Seyos set, Long: Island, daughter cf Captain vRTUliams. Her only at tendant was her mother, ' t ' r t While the ship bcirs tha tzzzz , (Continued cn Fez 2) ' : (Continued cr Paso 3) : ' Completion and commissioning. faction to me that the North w "it 1 L
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