Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Projection Forces Subcommittee
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Warship Builders
Author: Thomas Heinrich
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1682475530
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Warship Builders is the first scholarly study of the U.S. naval shipbuilding industry from the early 1920s to the end of World War II, when American shipyards produced the world's largest fleet that helped defeat the Axis powers in all corners of the globe. A colossal endeavor that absorbed billions and employed virtual armies of skilled workers, naval construction mobilized the nation's leading industrial enterprises in the shipbuilding, engineering, and steel industries to deliver warships whose technical complexity dwarfed that of any other weapons platform. Based on systematic comparisons with British, Japanese, and German naval construction, Thomas Heinrich pinpoints the distinct features of American shipbuilding methods, technology development, and management practices that enabled U.S. yards to vastly outproduce their foreign counterparts. Throughout the book, comparative analyses reveal differences and similarities in American, British, Japanese, and German naval construction. Heinrich shows that U.S. and German shipyards introduced electric arc welding and prefabrication methods to a far greater extent than their British and Japanese counterparts between the wars, laying the groundwork for their impressive production records in World War II. While the American and Japanese navies relied heavily on government-owned navy yards, the British and German navies had most of their combatants built in corporately-owned yards, contradicting the widespread notion that only U.S. industrial mobilization depended on private enterprise. Lastly, the U.S. government's investments into shipbuilding facilities in both private and government-owned shipyards dwarfed the sums British, Japanese, and German counterparts expended. This enabled American builders to deliver a vast fleet that played a pivotal role in global naval combat.
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1682475530
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Warship Builders is the first scholarly study of the U.S. naval shipbuilding industry from the early 1920s to the end of World War II, when American shipyards produced the world's largest fleet that helped defeat the Axis powers in all corners of the globe. A colossal endeavor that absorbed billions and employed virtual armies of skilled workers, naval construction mobilized the nation's leading industrial enterprises in the shipbuilding, engineering, and steel industries to deliver warships whose technical complexity dwarfed that of any other weapons platform. Based on systematic comparisons with British, Japanese, and German naval construction, Thomas Heinrich pinpoints the distinct features of American shipbuilding methods, technology development, and management practices that enabled U.S. yards to vastly outproduce their foreign counterparts. Throughout the book, comparative analyses reveal differences and similarities in American, British, Japanese, and German naval construction. Heinrich shows that U.S. and German shipyards introduced electric arc welding and prefabrication methods to a far greater extent than their British and Japanese counterparts between the wars, laying the groundwork for their impressive production records in World War II. While the American and Japanese navies relied heavily on government-owned navy yards, the British and German navies had most of their combatants built in corporately-owned yards, contradicting the widespread notion that only U.S. industrial mobilization depended on private enterprise. Lastly, the U.S. government's investments into shipbuilding facilities in both private and government-owned shipyards dwarfed the sums British, Japanese, and German counterparts expended. This enabled American builders to deliver a vast fleet that played a pivotal role in global naval combat.
The U.S. Shipbuilding Industrial Base
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Projection Forces Subcommittee
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
U.S. Shipping and Shipbuilding
Author: Peter T. Tarpgaard
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Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Report of the Commission on American Shipbuilding
Author: United States. Commission on American Shipbuilding
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Category : Shipbuilding
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Report and recommendations on the shipbuilding industry in the USA - covers shipbuilding costs and prices, factors governing competitiveness, employment and wages, subsidies, etc. References and statistical tables.
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Category : Shipbuilding
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Report and recommendations on the shipbuilding industry in the USA - covers shipbuilding costs and prices, factors governing competitiveness, employment and wages, subsidies, etc. References and statistical tables.
The United States Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Industry: Adequate for Prolonged Global Conflict?.
Author: Robert Martin Brown
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Category : Shipbuilding industry
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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Publisher:
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Category : Shipbuilding industry
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Ships for Victory
Author: Frederic Chapin Lane
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801867521
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 944
Book Description
A chronicle of America's intensive shipbuilding programme during World War II, this explores the development of revolutionary construction methods and the recruitment, training, housing and union activities of the workers.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801867521
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 944
Book Description
A chronicle of America's intensive shipbuilding programme during World War II, this explores the development of revolutionary construction methods and the recruitment, training, housing and union activities of the workers.
Shipbuilding Technology and Education
Author: Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 030905382X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
The U.S. shipbuilding industry now confronts grave challenges in providing essential support of national objectives. With recent emphasis on renewal of the U.S. naval fleet, followed by the defense builddown, U.S. shipbuilders have fallen far behind in commercial ship construction, and face powerful new competition from abroad. This book examines ways to reestablish the U.S. industry, to provide a technology base and R&D infrastructure sustaining both commercial and military goals. Comparing U.S. and foreign shipbuilders in four technological areas, the authors find that U.S. builders lag most severely in business process technologies, and in technologies of new products and materials. New advances in system technologies, such as simulation, are also needed, as are continuing developments in shipyard production technologies. The report identifies roles that various government agencies, academia, and, especially, industry itself must play for the U.S. shipbuilding industry to attempt a turnaround.
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 030905382X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
The U.S. shipbuilding industry now confronts grave challenges in providing essential support of national objectives. With recent emphasis on renewal of the U.S. naval fleet, followed by the defense builddown, U.S. shipbuilders have fallen far behind in commercial ship construction, and face powerful new competition from abroad. This book examines ways to reestablish the U.S. industry, to provide a technology base and R&D infrastructure sustaining both commercial and military goals. Comparing U.S. and foreign shipbuilders in four technological areas, the authors find that U.S. builders lag most severely in business process technologies, and in technologies of new products and materials. New advances in system technologies, such as simulation, are also needed, as are continuing developments in shipyard production technologies. The report identifies roles that various government agencies, academia, and, especially, industry itself must play for the U.S. shipbuilding industry to attempt a turnaround.
The Preservation Requirements for the U.S. Shipbuilding Mobilization Base
Author: Douglas G. Keller
Publisher:
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Category : Shipbuilding
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Shipbuilding
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
National Security Assessment of the U.S. Shipbuilding and Repair Industry
Author:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Report on Survey of U.S. Shipbuilding and Repair Facilities
Author:
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Category : Shipbuilding
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shipbuilding
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description