War Time Ship Building 1917-1918

Shows flag-raising ceremonies at the War Shipping Board Building, Washington, D.C.; beams being shaped for wooden hulled ships; steel bulkheads being forged, raised in place, riveted, and welded; Charles M. Schwab and WSB Chairman Hurley at the launching of the freighter Liberty at a Newark, N.J., shipyard; the launching of the destroyer Dallas and the freighters Coyote and Saccarappa at the Hog Island shipyard, Philadelphia, Pa.; and the burning of 31 World War I freighters in Mallows Bay, Md., on Nov. 7, 1935.