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Title
D14494-2
Date(s)
- 1943-05-06 (Creation)
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(1919-1980)
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Mr. and Mrs. Frederick P. Dravis and their daughter Virginia attended the 39th launching at the Tacoma yard of the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation on May 6, 1943. "The Keeweenaw," a US airplane carrier, was being launched. Mr. Dravis was the owner of Dravis Engineering & Machine Works of Tacoma. He was a naval architect and marine engineer. While holding for a radio broadcast of the ceremony to begin, the vessel slipped down the ways, launching itself five minutes early. (TNT 5/7/1943, pg. 1)
Dravis, Frederick P.--Family; Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp. (Tacoma);