Yard : Building a Destroyer at the Bath Iron Works

Name: Yard : Building a Destroyer at the Bath Iron Works
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ISBN: 9780060192464

ISBN-10: 0060192461

ISBN-13: 9780060192464

Edition: N/A

Authors: Michael S. Sanders

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In Bath, Maine, the birthplace of American shipbuilding, the century-old Bath Iron Works shipyard has been building--largely by hand and with a good dose of tradition--some of the finest, deadliest ships in the U.S. Navy. Accompanied by mounting competition and a pressing need to modernize, the yard faces the year 2000 with changes great and small, most notably in the way it launches ships. No longer will the great gray leviathans roar down the "ways"--the traditional inclined ramp--into the Kennebec River; this ancient technology will give way to the modern dry dock.

Book details

List price: $26.00
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 11/1/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Introduction	p. ix
The DDG-51 in Brief	p. 1
A Steel Shipbuilding Primer	p. 17
Bath, Cradle of Ships	p. 39
Hardings	p. 57
Four to Midnight in Vulcan's Workshop	p. 85
Crane	p. 113
Driving the Wedges	p. 123
Launch	p. 149
From Hull 463 to USS Donald Cook	p. 169
Charlie Trial	p. 199
Commissioning	p. 217
Epilogue	p. 229
Author's Note	p. 237
Acknowledgments	p. 239
Index	p. 243
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