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 The
SS "Grant P. Marsh" was launched on December 16, with Mrs.
Jack W. Robertson acting as sponsor. Her husband is a slabman on the
swing shift. An address was made by Dell Young, Swing Shift supervisor. |
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 Mrs.
Robert C. Myers sponsored the SS "Narcissa Whitman" on December
18. The ship's sponsor and attendants were selected through the sale
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new chapter in American shipbuilding history unfolded Wednesday, January
12, when Oregon launched the nation's first Victory ship, the SS "United
Victory."
"Far from being a secret weapon," said General Manager Edgar Kaiser at the launching ceremonies, "we reveal its talents to the Axis war lords. Plowing the seas at high speed one Victory ship will do the work of three Liberty ships. The crew of one Victory will do the work of the crews of three Libertys. One Victory ship, traveling at high speed, will not need any destroyers or cruisers or battleships or carrier-based planes to guard it." Other dignitaries included Mayor Earl Riley of Portland, and John Carmody, member of the maritime commission. Mayor Riley, who recently returned from a trip to England, declared, "Everywhere I found that Portland's fame had spread because of the Kaiser shipyards, the miracle organization which you .men and women have created." Carmody asked for even greater efforts during 1944. "We ought not to let go of our production jobs until last shot has been fired," he declared. Earl Snell, Oregon's governor, spoke by remote control from the state house in Salem. Other prominent persons from all over the world who sent their congratulations by wire included President Roosevelt arid Lord Halifax. |
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 On
December 20 the SS "Isaac I. Stevens" went down the ways,
with Mrs. Keith K. LeRoy, wife of an Oregon Ship expediter as sponsor.
Principal address was made by John H. Blackey, supervisor of expediters. |
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 Launching
of the SS "William I. Chamberlain" was on December 22, with
Miss Maryann Groeger as sponsor. Miss Groeger's father, Adolph Groeger,
president of the Northwest Copper Company, was the principal speaker. |
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Ship's 315th ship, the SS "Mary E. Kinney" was launched
on December 29, with Mrs. Robert Stice as sponsor. A Brief address
was made by the sponsor's husband, Robert Stice, head of the Progress
department. |
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| Victory Workers are these Oregon shipyard girls dressed for the first Victory ship launching to represent the nations of their birth or background. In the front row are a quartet of United Nations girls. From left are: Anne Akovenko, Russia; Dorothy Fong, China; Raquel Morales, Philippine Islands; Lilia Cortright, Mexico. Others, also in authentic costumes and the countries they represent are, from left: Second row - Kathryn Schaneman, Greece; Yolanda Danatini, Honduras; Irene Herem, Canada; Jenny Hagler, Belgium. Third row?Mary Ann Parker, Guatemala; Geneva Clinton, Ethiopia; Florence Campbell, Dominican Republic; Laverna Linafelter, Yugoslavia Fourth row - Louise Gass, Holland; Pauline Phillips, Czechoslovakia. Fifth row - Mary Bergman, Norway; Mary Coleman, Luxembourg; Jane Iverson, New Zealand; Helen Gibler, Poland. Sixth row - Irma Reed, Haiti; Emily Ryder, Nicaragua; Mary Pribyl, El Salvador. Seventh row - Marion Biewett, Iraq; Lucile Tompkins, Brazil; Helen Stucharath, Colombia; Palma Staino, India. India. Eighth row - Charlotte Kalberer, Bolivia; Edrie Chaney, Cuba; Maxine Kirkland, Costa Rica; Peggy Kissell, United States; Betty Eivers, Great Britain. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Mrs.
A. B. Ordway, wife of the administrative manager of the four Kaiser
Richmond yards, was sponsor at the launching of the SS "Harrington
Emerson" on December 31. |
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 The
SS "Elwood Mead" slid down the ways on January 5, with Mrs.
Elwood Mead, wife of the late Elwood Mead and mother of Mrs. Edgar
Kaiser, acting as sponsor. Marshall Dana, of the Oregon journal, was
the speaker. |
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 Mrs.
Dorothy M. Jacobson, chief clerk on the Day Shift, was sponsor at
the launching of the SS "Samuel V. Stewart" on January 7,
with Norman K. Lee, material supervisor, made an address. |
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added another to her famous list of "firsts" when the SS
"Czechoslovakia Victory" went down the ways on January 20th
with her name misspelled. Regardless of spelling, America's second
Victory is a trim vessel, bigger and faster than her sister Libertys. |
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 Recognition
of the Infantile Paralysis drive was made during the launching of
the SS "John W. Troy" on January 10, when Carl Donough gave
a brief talk on the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Miss
Nancy Merki acted as sponsor. |
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 Launching
of Oregon Ship's first Victory ship, the SS "United Victory"
was on January 12, with special ceremonies in honor of the occasion.
Mrs. Thomas Beck, wife of the president of the Crowell Collier Company,
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| Presenting flowers to the sponsor of the SS "Czechoslovakia Victory", Oregon's second, is May Howard, Oregon Ship subassembly welder. This was the second launching for the Vickery family in two days. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In the official launching party were, from left: Mrs. W. B. Lusk, matron of honor; Edgar F. Kaiser, general, manager; Marie Anderson, O.S.C. welder, flower girl; Mrs. Thomas H. Beck, sponsor; John Carmody, member of the five-man maritime commission; and Mrs. A. L. Berkley, matron of honor. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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