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Title
SS Mission Purisima, a T-2 tanker built at Marinship, Marin County, pulling out from the dock, during a trial run on November 5, 1943 [photograph]
Creator
unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
November 5, 1943
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
The SS Mission Purisima was the first tanker to be fully completed at Marinship. 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_1270
1344.001.013
http://contentdm.marinlibrary.org/cdm/ref/collection/marinship/id/8
Language
English
Subject
Warships
War
War work
Place
Marin City (Calif.)
Sausalito (Calif.)

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