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Title
C83912-9
Date(s)
- 1952-05-01 (Creation)
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(1919-1980)
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Copy of customer's print; progress photograph of shipbuilding. Work continued on the construction of the AM 435, the USS Endurance, in the spring of 1952. J.M.Martinac Shipbuilding had won a contract from the Navy to build several 171-foot mindsweepers. The Endurance was the first mindsweeper completed and the largest wooden-hulled vessel built in Tacoma since World War 1. Total cost would be approximately 3.5 million dollars. The Endurance was launched in August, 1952, and commissioned on March 20, 1954.
Progress photographs; J.M. Martinac Shipbuilding Corp. (Tacoma); Boat & ship industry--Tacoma--1950-1960; Industrial facilities--Tacoma--1950-1960; Government vessels--Tacoma--1950-1960;