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C83912-3
Date(s)
- 1952-04-01 (Creation)
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(1919-1980)
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Copy of customer's print; view of Martinac Shipbuilding employees at work. Construction of a 171-foot mindsweeper for the Navy took many months. J.M. Martinac Shipbuilding had been awarded a contract to build several mindsweepers; this particular boat was the USS Endurance, the first. It was the largest wooden-hulled vessel to be built in Tacoma since World War 1. The Endurance would be launched in August, 1952, and commissioned on March 20, 1954.
J.M. Martinac Shipbuilding Corp. (Tacoma); Boat & ship industry--Tacoma--1950-1960; Industrial facilities--Tacoma--1950-1960; Government vessels--Tacoma--1950-1960;