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Vancouver, WA shipyard
Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2017 11:43 am
by spence
Vancouver, WA lies across the Columbia River from Portland, OR. During WW2 Kaiser Industries had a shipyard there as well as in Portland. This article was in the paper this morning:
http://www.columbian.com/news/2017/oct/ ... -families/
There's a bunch of photos but don't know if everybody here can look at them
RE: Vancouver, WA shipyard
Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2017 11:52 am
by spence
From the article (not sure this is gonna work):
RE: Vancouver, WA shipyard
Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2017 12:52 pm
by m10bob
Looks great, thank you..
RE: Vancouver, WA shipyard
Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2017 2:02 pm
by bobdina
Thanks for posting, some good pics of CVE's in the article .
RE: Vancouver, WA shipyard
Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2017 3:17 pm
by dave sindel
great stuff - thanks for the link
RE: Vancouver, WA shipyard
Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2017 3:47 pm
by Yaab
ORIGINAL: spence
From the article (not sure this is gonna work):
Midnight oil.
RE: Vancouver, WA shipyard
Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2017 6:56 pm
by wdolson
At a party once someone was opining on how the Japanese would have won the war if they had won the Battle of Midway. I pointed out more deck capacity was built in Vancouver alone than Japan has ever built. They were CVEs and not built for carrier to carrier combat, but they did free up the fleet carriers to hunt the big game when it popped its head up.
Have you ever been to the McMennimins down there where the shipyard used to be? They have some WW II vintage photos of the shipyard on the walls.
Bill
RE: Vancouver, WA shipyard
Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2017 2:34 pm
by rustysi
ORIGINAL: wdolson
At a party once someone was opining on how the Japanese would have won the war if they had won the Battle of Midway. I pointed out more deck capacity was built in Vancouver alone than Japan has ever built. They were CVEs and not built for carrier to carrier combat, but they did free up the fleet carriers to hunt the big game when it popped its head up.
Have you ever been to the McMennimins down there where the shipyard used to be? They have some WW II vintage photos of the shipyard on the walls.
Bill
On the other coast you had, Bath, Maine. IIRC it alone built more DD's than the entire Japanese empire.
RE: Vancouver, WA shipyard
Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2017 3:53 pm
by geofflambert
Taffy 3 at the battle off Samar sank a good deal of tonnage.
RE: Vancouver, WA shipyard
Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2017 4:05 pm
by Zorch
How many CV/CVL/CVEs could the US have built instead of the 6 Alaska BCs? (Only 2 of which were completed)
RE: Vancouver, WA shipyard
Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2017 11:42 pm
by BBfanboy
ORIGINAL: geofflambert
Taffy 3 at the battle off Samar sank a good deal of tonnage.
They did have some help from aircraft of Taffys 1 and 2 which were also fleeing south.
RE: Vancouver, WA shipyard
Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2017 10:22 am
by m10bob
Nice pics.