In the dark, frenzied years of World War II, the San Francisco Bay Area was the geographic center of a $6.3 billion West Coast shipbuilding industry. Stretching from the Golden Gate to Vallejo to Sunnyvale, 14 Bay Area yards launched many of the ships that helped save the free world. Basalt Rock of Napa, Bethlehem Steel of San Francisco and Alameda, Hunters Point and Mare Island Naval Shipyards, Joshua Hendy Iron Works of Sunnyvale, Marinship of Sausalito, Permanente Metals in Richmond, and Western Pipe and Steel in South San Francisco are names that still conjure memories for many locals of one of the most impassioned war efforts in human history. Offering new opportunities for African Americans and women, recruiters searched the nation for workers who relocated here by the thousands. These motivated men and women delivered Liberty cargo ships like the SS Robert E. Peary, built in seven and a half days, a shipbuilding record that stands to this day.

Author: Nicholas A. Veronico
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Published: 02/07/2007
Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.7lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.50w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780738547176

About the Author
Veronico, Nicholas A.: - Nicholas A. Veronico, also author of Images of Aviation: Moffett Field as well as more than 20 books on aviation and military subjects, has chosen and annotated these precious images that honor those who labored in these yards, informing new generations about their contribution to the nation in its time of need.