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The Boilermakers Journal Vol. LVI, No. 2

8 1/4 in. wide by 10 7/8 in. long. 31 pages. Blue cover pages in black and white. Sticker on the front with name and mailing address.

Tags: American Federation of Labor, International Brotherhood of Boilermakers Iron Ship Builders and Helpers of America, journal

Documents From an Industrial Safety Class at Texas A&M

The course materials and typed letter are on letter sized paper. The program is a folded piece of letter sized paper and the diploma is 12.5 x 9.5 piece of paper. All the paper is yellowed and the diploma has the top half inch frayed and crumpled…

Tags: Safety, shipworker, Texas A&M, Training

Files of the Radio Officer aboard the SS John LaFarge

Paper is yellowed throughout and staples are creating rust stains.

Tags: American Liberty Steamship Corporation, American Range - Liberty Lines, Department of the Navy, Radio, Radiomarine Corporation of America, SS John LaFarge, Submarine Sighting, Torpedo Attack, War Shipping Administration, Waterman Steamship Corporation

The Marionette

One newsletter that is in poor condition.

Tags: SS Francis Marion, troopship

Personal effects of Seaman First Class John S. Bailey Jr. USNR

letters, cards and pamphlets all yellowed with time, and brittle.

Tags: Award, Brazil, Brooklyn, Rio De Janeiro, Santos, Shellback, SS Allegheny Victory, SS Guatemala Victory, SS Morton M McCarver

North Carolina Shipbuilding Company Security Documents

Two letter sized documents. The Espionage Act reminder is folded in half to have four pages. The other is a tri folded letter.

Tags: Espionage, North Carolina Shipbuilding Corporation, Security

Schematics for Fuel Oil Heating Coils

11.5 x 7.5 in, the paper is yellowed by time. There is a lot of writing in pencil on every schematic.

Tags: Engineering, Kaiser Company, Schematics, shipbuilding

Kaiser Shipbuilding Experience

Kaiser shipbuilding; how many shipyards they had, how many ships and what kind they built, cost of delivery, average man hours, average cost.

Tags: Kaiser Company, Liberty Ships, SS Robert E. Peary

Radio Calibration Chart for SS John W Brown

16" wide by 11" high piece of blue paper, creased heavily from a fold in the middle.

Tags: New York City, Radio, SS John W Brown, United States Maritime Commission

Marine Progress Vol. 11 No. 3

8.75in wide x 11.75in high, 64 page periodical bound with two staples. Paper is yellowed from time, seam at the binding is brittle.

Tags: advertisements, Lend-Lease, Maritime Business, shipbuilding, SS Edward Livingston, SS Peter Donahue, SS Steel Exporter

Polaris, 14 issues

9 in. wide, 11.75 in. tall. Minor damage

Tags: Merchant Marines Cadet Corps, Polaris

Our Merchant Marine: Facts and Comments

28 page booklet 8 1/4 in wide by 11 1/2 in high. printed in color, pages are yellowed from time.

Tags: merchant fleet, shipbuilding, Trade

Personal objects of Mr. Harry Morgan

Agreement between Bethlehem Steel Co.(shipping division) and Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding workers of America Booklet,Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard Inc, Baltimore, letter from Project Liberty Ship

Tags: Bethlehem Shipyard, Bethlehem-Fairfield

Personal objects of Norris Wainwright

Personal letter from Norris Wainwright, Newspaper article regarding his injury, Story" Without Benefit Gunfire"

Tags: accident, newspaper letter, United States Coast Guard

Personal Objects of Mr. Philip Sherman

First Aid Certificate for Philip Sherman, 2 Blank Cadet-Midshipman Fitness Report, Polaris Souvenir Number October 1945 Magazine, Letter of Assignment to SS Indiana, Cadet- Midshipman Philip Sherman U.S. Merchant Marine Academy June 1945 photo and…

Tags: King's Point, Merchan Marine Cadet Basic School, Merchant Marines Cadet Corps, SS Indiana, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, United States Public Health Service, USMMA, War Shipping Administration

National Geographic Article

One page, good condition. 6.75" x 9.75"

Tags: Kaiser Company, Liberty Ship, National Geographic, Portland Oregon, shipbuilding

Smash Hitler - Vote NMU!

Small 32 page booklet

Tags: Esso, Labor, NMU, Union

Telephone Directory

5.25 in wide x 8.5 in high booklet with 48 pages, bound with two staples. Paper is yellowed, cover is dirty and staples are rusting.

Tags: New England Shipbuilding Corporation, shipbuilding

Welcome Home!

8 page, bi-folded newsletter

Tags: New York City, troopship

Arrival Certificate

Cardstock, 7.75" x 5".

Tags: New York City, SS John M Morehead, Transportation Corps

Troop Return Certificate

7.75in wide x 5.5in high. yellowed with time. top right corner folded. There are illegible signatures on the back.

Tags: New York, SS John P Mitchel, Transportation Corps, troopship

Troop Return Certificate

Single piece of thick paper, two sided. certificate on the front with room for autographs on the back, used for addresses

Tags: 1343rd Combat Engineers, Liberty Ship, New York City, NYPE, SS Jonathan Edwards, troopship

Graduation Exercises: New York State Maritime Academy

5 7/8 in wide by 8 3/4 in high, single piece of folded paper.

Tags: New York, SUNY Maritime

Shipyard Bulletin Vol VIII, No 12

Manila folder containing Shipyard newspaper

Tags: Cargo Ships, HMS Bath, HMS Beverly, HMS Broadway, HMS Charleston, HMS Chesterfield, HMS Churchhill, HMS cLAIRE, HMS Columbia, HMS St Albans, HMS St. Marys, HMS Vimy, HMSBelmont, HMSBroadwater, Hull 227, Hull 236, Hull 239, Hull 240, Hull 400, Liberty Ship, New Port News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, North Carolina Shipbuilding Corporation, Oilers, S. Lyon, SS Abbot, SS Abel P. Upshur, SS Aldebaran, SS America, SS Aras, SS Argentina, SS Ariel, SS Army Floating Hotel, SS Arthur Dobbs, SS Augustus Merriman, SS Bagley, SS Beaver, SS Branch, SS Brarius, SS Brazil, SS California, SS Charles A. Dana, SS Charles D. McIver, SS Chiriqui, SS City of Chattanooga, SS Clement Clay, SS Cymophane, SS David F. Houston, SS Delta, SS Esso Columbia, SS Esso Delivery No. II, SS Esso Raliegh, SS Esso Richmond, SS Evelyn, SS George Durant, SS Golden State, SS Guadalupe, SS Haraden, SS Hawaiian Packer, SS Hawaiian Planter, SS Herndon, SS Hilary A. Herbert, SS Hopewell, SS Hunt, SS Huston, SS Hutchinson I. Cone, SS Iroquois, SS J C Donnell, SS James I. McKay, SS James N. Maffitt, SS John Branch, SS John Lawson, SS John Merrick, SS Josepsh LeConte, SS Kaskaskia, SS Lawrence D. Tyson, SS Madison, SS Mason, SS Mitzpah, SS Moutfort Stokes, SS Nenemoosha, SS Ohio, SS Oriente, SS Pasig, SS Patoka, SS Pennsylvania, SS Peten, SS Presdient Adams, SS President Coolidge, SS President Garfield, SS President Hayes, SS President Jackson, SS President Monroe, SS President Polk, SS President Van Buren, SS Ramapo, SS Rapidan, SS Richmond P. Hobson, SS Robador, SS Salamonie, SS Salinas, SS Sapelo, SS Satterlee, SS Savarona, SS Sepulga, SS Silver State, SS Solace, SS St Augustine, SS Stag Hound, SS Tarazed, SS Thomas, SS Thomas H. Barry, SS Thomas Jefferson, SS Thomas Polluck, SS Thomas Stone, SS Thomas W. Owen, SS Tippecanoe, SS Trinity, SS Turquoise, SS Uruguay, SS Viking, SS Virginia, SS Welborn C. Wood, SS West Point, SS Williamsburg, SS Zeilin, Storeships, Transports, USAT Asterion, USAT Madison, USAT Task H. Bliss

SS Pocahontas Launching Pamphlet

Single piece of paper, folded once. folded dimensions are 3 7/8 in wide by 6 5/15 in high. The bottom right corner is ripped off.

Tags: North Carolina Shipbuilding Corporation, shipbuilding, SS Abel Parker Upshur, SS Abner Nash, SS Alexander Lillington, SS Alexander Martin, SS Artemas Ward, SS Benjamin Smtih, SS Benjamin Williams, SS Charles C Pickney, SS Collis P Huntington, SS Cornelius Harnett, SS Daniel Morgan, SS David Stone, SS Edward Rutledge, SS Francis Marion, SS Henry Bacon, SS Henry Middleton, SS Hugh Williamson, SS James A Polk, SS James B Richardson, SS James Iredell, SS James Turner, SS Jeremiah Van Rensellaer, SS John C Calhoun, SS John Cooper, SS John Drayton, SS John Penn, SS Joseph Aslton, SS Joseph Hewes, SS Marshall Elliott, SS Nathanael Greene, SS Nathaniel Alexander, SS Paul Hamilton, SS Paul Hamilton Hayne, SS Penelope Barker, SS Pocahontas, SS Richard Caswell, SS Richard P Spaight, SS Roger Williams, SS Samuel Ashe, SS Thomas Pickney, SS Thomas Sumter, SS Viginia Dare, SS William A Graham, SS William Gaston, SS William Hawkins, SS William Hooper, SS William Moultrie, SS William R Davie, SS Zebulon B Vance

Launching Pass

a 2 13/16 in wide by 1 13/16 in high piece of green paper, one sided.

Tags: North Carolina Shipbuilding Corporation, shipbuilding, SS Zebulon B Vance

Troop Return Certificate

Single piece of thick paper, two sided. certificate on the front with room for autographs on the back, used for addresses

Tags: New York City, NYPE, troopship

Lend Lease Correspondence

Four stapled pieces of thin memorandum paper.

Tags: Lend-Lease, USS Sea Otter, Weaver Associates

Confidential Navigational Documents

8" x 13". Paper yellowed.

Tags: Confidential, SS Oliver Kelley

War Jobs For Women

5 in wide x 8 in tall booklet bound with one staple. Paper is yellowed from time.

Tags: Farming, Office of Civilian Defense, Red Cross, shipbuilding, US Employment Service, USO, WAACS, WAFS, WAVES, women workers

Liberty Ship postcards

The Liberty: Joseph N. Teal, SS John I. Nolan
Liberty ships moored in basin, Day shift workers, parking area in shipyard and The Ways and pre-erection area.
SS Laconia Victory postcard, Honor card for junior shipmates with a message from Mrs.…

Tags: Bethlehem-Fairfield, Honor Card, Junior Shipmate, Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation, shipbuilding, shipworker, SS John I. Nolan, SS John N. Teal, SSLaconia Victory

The Bo's'n's Whistle

Each publication prints articles with interest to workers of the Oregon Shipbuilding Company of Portland, Oregon, and the Kaiser Company of Vancouver. These include the history/production of ships, safety tips, and editorials about the happenings…

Oregon Shipbuilding Service Record

5 3/8 in high by 3 3/8 in wide envelope that contained a card of the same dimensions. It also contains a laminated card 3 3/4 in wide by 2 1/2 in high.

Tags: Oregon Shipyard, shipbuilding

The Bo's'n's Whistle, June 1942

8.5 in. wide by 11.5 in. tall. Little to no damage.

Tags: Bo's'n's Whistle, Kaiser Company, Maritime Day, Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation

2 Oregon Shipbuilding Postcards

both are 5 3/8 in wide by 3 3/8 in high postcard, unmailed. Writing along the bottom edge of both.

Tags: Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation, Oregon Shipyard, shipbuilding, shipworker

Bo's'n's Whistle

16 page bifolded with staples for binding magazine style. The 1945 edition is in a newspaper format. Magazine style measure 8 1/2 in wide by 11 in high. Newspaper style measure 11 in wide by 17 1/4 in high. The December 1942 issue has the back two…