America's Maritime Legacy

America's Maritime Legacy
Author: Robert A. Kilmarx
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2019-03-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 0429727186

This book presents a comprehensive historical analysis of merchant shipping on the high seas and associated shipbuilding under sovereign U.S. jurisdiction from precolonial times to the present. It identifies U.S. policy developments that have affected the merchant marine and shipbuilding industries.

Report of the Commission on American Shipbuilding

Report of the Commission on American Shipbuilding
Author: United States. Commission on American Shipbuilding
Publisher:
Total Pages: 36
Release: 1973
Genre: Shipbuilding
ISBN:

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.

Shipbuilding for Domestic and Foreign Account

Shipbuilding for Domestic and Foreign Account
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Publisher:
Total Pages: 38
Release: 1919
Genre: Shipbuilding
ISBN:

Considers S. 1274, to repeal U.S. Shipping Board approval requirement for construction of ships in American shipyards for foreign account.

Ships for Victory

Ships for Victory
Author: Frederic Chapin Lane
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 944
Release: 2001-09-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780801867521

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.