DELIVERY ON SUNDAY
SHIP BUILT IN TEN DAYS New York. Sept. 24. Commenting on the launching of a Liberty shin ten days after the keel was laid. Mr. Henry Kaiser said that the 10.500-ton shin had its boilers in and steam up when it was launched and was 87 per cent, completed. It will be delivered to the Government on Sunday. The launching broke the record set by Mr. Kaiser's Richmond yard on August 28. The record for the first Wo-’d War fn> shios of similar construction was 212 days. Mr. Kaiser built his first ship last September.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 227, 26 September 1942, Page 4
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98DELIVERY ON SUNDAY Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 227, 26 September 1942, Page 4
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