The Wilmington Shipyard: Welding a Fleet for Victory in World War II
Author:   Ralph Scott
Publisher:   Arcadia Publishing
ISBN:  

9781596292109


Pages:   158
Publication Date:   25 June 2007
Format:   Paperback
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The Wilmington Shipyard: Welding a Fleet for Victory in World War II


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As the nation launched into World War II, the North Carolina Shipbuilding Corporation began building the vessels to ensure victory. Although the brief life of the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company was surrounded by controversy, including location and labor disputes, some 243 Liberty- and Victory-class ships were built in Wilmington between 1942 and 1946 to bolster the United States Navy's World War II fleet. Author Ralph Lee Scott examines the impact of this shipyard and its effect on Wilmington's transformation from a sleepy post-Depression coastal town into a major state industrial center. Workers from around the Southeast pitched in and pulled together to build the ships that would help win the largest global conflict of the twentieth century.

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Author:   Ralph Scott
Publisher:   Arcadia Publishing
Imprint:   Arcadia Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 16.50cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9781596292109


ISBN 10:   1596292105
Pages:   158
Publication Date:   25 June 2007
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained
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Ralph Scott is professor of History at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. He is president of the Association of North Carolina Historians. This is his first book.

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