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Looks like 4 sheets 8 pages and not sure if all pages are there or supposed to be more inside pages, included is engineering safety bulletin that came with this magazine. Engineering bulletin measures around 11″ x 8 1/2″ with holes for binder. Magazine is around 12″ x 9″. First page cover headline reads The Marin-er July 8, 1944, Engineering Issue. Second page reads: Know Your Ship No. 7 of a Series. Third page reads: You Can’t Build Ships Without Blueprints. Fourth page reads Straight From the Shoulder by Bill Waste General Manager. Fifth page reads : Americas Defenders Today and Tomorrow. Sixth page reads: The Marin-ers journey; Seventh page reads Engineering Department. Last back page eight reads page eight reads Buy Yours Copies of Spectacular Marinship Pictorial Book.
Shows wear with age appropriate stains, rips, tears, creases, bends, seam separation and still looks great! No binder included.
History
Marinship was a World War II shipyard built by the W.A. Bechtel Company to fulfill an urgent need for cargo ships to support soldiers all over the world. Sausalito was selected as the site for its unused railroad capacity and access to a deepwater channel and the Golden Gate Bridge. In March 1942, the shipyard was built on the site of the railroad maintenance yard and adjacent vacant mudflats, with the first ship being launched in September. At the time of its peak operation, there were as many as 20,000 workers. Workers were recruited from local resources at first but eventually a more widespread recruitment brought people from the Midwest and the South. These new workers, including minorities and women, enabled Marinship to become a leader in the integrated workforce phenomenon. As the war in Europe was won, fewer ships were needed. The Marinship labor force was reduced by about half until the victory in Japan, when ships were no longer needed. Marinship was soon taken over by the US Army Corps of Engineers, which disposed of what it did not need for its operations and currently maintains several buildings to facilitate its regional operations.
