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Title
Aerial view of Marinship, Marin County, 1944 [photograph]
Creator
unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
1944
Publication Information
Marin County Free Library. Anne T. Kent California Room
Contributing Institution
Marin County Free Library
Collection
Marinship, 1942-1945
Rights Information
unknown
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Description
A 1944 aerial view of Marinship operations, looking north, with Marin City in the background. Pictured is the main warehouse and eight new tankers preparing for service. Today this site is the Army Corps of Engineers Bay Model. Marinship Corporation in Sausalito was a WWII Liberty shipyard owned by W.A. Bechtel Co. During WWII, residential Marin City was developed as housing for Marinship workers and their families. In the span of Marinship's three and a half years of active service (1942-1945), fifteen EC-2 Liberty Ships were built, along with seventy-eight oil tankers and twenty invasion barges. At its peak, Marinship employed a multi-ethnic workforce of 20,000.
Type
image
Identifier
csrcl_1259
1344.001.004
http://contentdm.marinlibrary.org/cdm/ref/collection/marinship/id/0
Language
English
Subject
Warships
War
War work
Aerial photographs
Place
Marin City (Calif.)
Sausalito (Calif.)
Relation
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt0q2nc5z2
http://www.marinlibrary.org/californiaroom/

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