Shipyard Welding

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WWII Navy veteran recounts his time aboard ship in South Pacific

Arkansas Online 09 Jan 2021

Harold Dee "Dusty" Lansdale, the oldest living Fordyce Redbug, served aboard the battleship USS Maryland in the South Pacific through some of the worst fighting of World War II. The retired master electrician will mark his 97th birthday this April ... 19, 1943 ... Maryland ." ... "The shipyard cut off one bow in dry dock and welded the new one back on," he said....

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Eveleth woman leaves children priceless gift, her autobiography

Mesabi Daily News 20 Dec 2020

EVELETH — Esther Salmi got very ill as a little girl in the 1920s, and her parents treated her at home in Makinen with remedies of sulphur, pine tar and molasses. Finally a doctor from Eveleth was called to the house ... "Mom had a green file box in her closet ... Wayne took welding classes and they moved to Superior, Wis., where he worked in the shipyards....

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James (Jim) Allen Hanna

The Centralia Chronicle 30 Nov 2020

He helped build large steel ships at a shipyard in the Pacific Northwest. He was an expert welder by trade, and would weld the large steel panels together that made up the outer skins of the ships ... He went on to teach welding at the collegiate level for a while....

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Seacoast School of Technology welcomes new welding instructor

Portsmouth Herald 22 Nov 2020

Biladeau, a graduate of SST’s building construction and welding programs, holds a degree in welding technology from Manchester Community College, has extensive welding experience from Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, served as a welder/fabricator at GE Aviation and has instructing experience from Great Bay Community College....

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Historic shipyard in Istanbul turned into contemporary art workshop

Xinhua 13 Nov 2020

Halic Shipyard, founded in 1455 on the shores of the Golden Horn during the Ottoman era, hosted seven Turkish sculptors as part of an art event organized by the Istanbul municipality ... According to the curator, some senior mechanics of the shipyard cooperated with the artists by helping them with the welding, cutting, and bending activities....

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On Remembrance Day, Celebrating Two Canadian Prisoners Who Took Down an Entire Shipyard

Quillette 11 Nov 2020

(The camp went by several different names over the course of the war.) After leaving the ship, we were taken by train to our camp, which was about a mile from the shipyards ... As a prisoner, Clark knew that a successful sabotage attack on the shipyard—an “inside job,” as it were—would help the Allied war effort immensely....

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Massive ship's bow being barged to North Van's Seaspan Shipyards

North Shore News 29 Oct 2020

... a Delta welding company Wednesday night and pass under the Lions Gate Bridge around 6 a.m....

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Holland America Line's Rotterdam Reaches Next Building Milestone with Coin Ceremony Celebration at Fincantieri Shipyard

Ellensburg Daily Record 01 Oct 2020

1, at Fincantieri's Marghera shipyard in Italy ... During the socially responsible ceremony, Dutch coins minted in 1872 to honor Holland America Line's first Rotterdam were welded to the outside deck of the ship to bring good fortune, followed by a blessing by the shipyard chaplain....

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Weekend Break: Shipbuilder's efforts remembered 75 years after WWII

The Daily Astorian 12 Sep 2020

One of his most prominent accomplishments was his establishment of Kaiser Shipyards, which produced the Liberty and Victory ships and Casablanca escort carriers during World War II ... He built two shipyards near Portland and another near Vancouver, Washington ... His shipyards mass-produced ships at a rate that was unheard of at that time....

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How Tampa Bay area civilians supported the troops during World War II

Tampa Bay Times 01 Sep 2020

“Shipyards throughout the United States commonly hired women as riveters,” Weatherford wrote in her book. “The first female welder in Tampa was Cecile Clark.” Alma Brown was the first women admitted to the Boilermakers Union and Opal Brown won a welding competition at Jackson Shipyard in Hooker’s Point....

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Return after 9-week strike going smoothly at Bath Iron Works

Bangor Daily News 31 Aug 2020

Tim Suitter, spokesperson for Machinists Local S6, said the initial meeting that included union President Chris Wiers and shipyard President Dirk Lesko seemed to go well on Friday ... Some even argued that a mask could pose a fire hazard in areas where welding takes place. The 63-day strike was the first in two decades at the shipyard....

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Roger ‘Dale’ Wilson, 69

Montana Standard 22 Aug 2020

... simulation of welding processes ... After over thirty years of mostly being a “Butte Rat”, Dale moved to Port Orchard, Washington, where he and Mary tried to settle-in while he worked as a nuclear welding engineer for the Department of the Navy, at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard....

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Donald Wayne Bryson

The Mercury 02 Jul 2020

Donald Wayne Bryson, age 94 of Riley, passed away Wednesday, July 1, 2020 at the Good Shepherd Hospice House ... On March 21, 1947, he married Betty Louise Phalen ... He graduated from Riley Rural High School in Riley, KS in 1942, and then attended welding school in Topeka. Upon graduation he traveled to San Francisco to work as a welder in the shipyard ... ....