johnrhunter
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- submarineboatcorporation
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Laying keel of 1st ship, Newark (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2016
John R. Hunter at submarine Co. Yard (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2016
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John R. Hunter at submarine Co. Yard (LOC)
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Art Siegel said:
This picture ran in the January, 1918 number of The Water Tower, with the description: "THE LAYING OF THE FIRST KEEL On Thursday December 20th [1917] at the Newark Bay Shipyard the first rivet was driven in the first standardized structural steel ship ever built. [...] The picture shows Mr John Hunter, representative of the United States Shipping Board, driving the first rivet after the center vertical keelson had been put in place. The gentleman standing immediately behind Mr Hunter in this picture is Mr Henry R Sutphen, vice president of the Submarine Boat Corporation and the man to whom credit for the production of the standardized structural steel ship is due." books.google.com/books?id=FAY0AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA48&lp...
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Art Siegel said:
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Art Siegel said:
"During World War I the Submarine Boat Corporation's yard was the second largest shipyard in the United States. There were as many as twenty-five thousand men working there." More on the company and its Newark Bay Shipyard here: www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/newark-bay.htm
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Art Siegel said:
A January, 1943 biographical sketch of Henry R. Sutphen (standing at center, above), naming him as the force behind the PT boats of WWII. books.google.com/books?id=y0i4p6MqmPgC&pg=PA164&l...
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Arden said:
Art Siegel: thanks for finding the matching published image and for identifying Mr John Hunter and Henry R Sutphen at the Newark Bay Shipyard ceremony. We will add more information to both these images when we update.