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World War Two Liberty ships Calship Log Dec 1943 ( Los Angeles )
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This is an interesting publication from the war days. Calship stood for California Shipbuilding Corporation. Calship Log was their company publication. They were located at Terminal Island in Los Angeles. They operated from February 1941 to September 1945, producing 467 Liberty ships during that period.It is amazing that 2,710 Liberty ships were produced during the war. Liberty ships were produced at 18 yards around the US. One ship could be built in about 42 days. Only about 4 ships remain today. I remember after the war that many of these were "mothballed" in harbors around the country. In my state of Washington, there were many that were stored in Olympia, and I believe also in Tacoma.
This publication discusses many interesting aspects of ship construction. It focuses on their 300th ship, the Philip C Shera. Although they refer to it as Hill 300, one Wikipedia source gives it a hull number of 2545, so a bit of a mystery. The ship was scrapped in 1969
The document is full size, with 10 pages including the inside covers. Not all pages are shown. It does show wear, some nicks and creases, etc. However, no loose pages or discoloring.