A world's record for maritime construction was set when United States shipyards launched 174 ships and laid the keels of 49 others in a single day. The previous 'record was established during the Great War, when American shipyards launched a total of 95 ships in a single day. This photograph shows- a> tank-carrier being launched on an inland waterway, one of the 174 ships launched in a singlekday.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 106, 31 October 1942, Page 6
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68A world's record for maritime construction was set when United States shipyards launched 174 ships and laid the keels of 49 others in a single day. The previous 'record was established during the Great War, when American shipyards launched a total of 95 ships in a single day. This photograph shows- a> tank-carrier being launched on an inland waterway, one of the 174 ships launched in a singlekday. Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 106, 31 October 1942, Page 6
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