FREE: WW II Swan Island Yard Of Champions Naval Pin. RARE

The Kaiser yard at Swan Island, Portland, OR boasts with good reason that its workers are the "Tanker Champions of the World." The reason: The tanker champion flag flew over the Swan Island yard for twelve out of the fifteen months up to the end of 1944-and from the date of the yard's construction this yard has delivered 134 of the great T2 tankers. Swan Island delivered 43 tankers in 1943, incidentally winning the Tanker Champion Flag on October 23rd of that year for achieving the highest productivity way of any American yard building tankers. In 1944 it delivered 64 T2's, outfitted six fleet oilers, and in December of that year set an all-time record by launching seven and delivering seven tankers. In 1943 the average Swan tanker was built in 115.5 days, but in 1944 that time was cut to 62.9 days, an improvement of about 45 per cent.

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