Liberty Ship stern subassemblies
- OrgLot791_PA64209-108
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- 1944-08
A view of the stern subassemblies for a Liberty Ship showing how the stern frames produced by Columbia Steel Casting Company were welded to the ship’s hull plates.
Atkeson, Ray
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Liberty Ship stern subassemblies
A view of the stern subassemblies for a Liberty Ship showing how the stern frames produced by Columbia Steel Casting Company were welded to the ship’s hull plates.
Atkeson, Ray
Interior view of Columbia Steel Casting Company
Two employees help guide a large, ship's hull casting as it is removed from the mold by a crane at Columbia Steel Casting Company. Note mold half in background with employee riding on top as it’s moved with a crane.
Atkeson, Ray
Interior view of Columbia Steel Casting Company
A large hull casting is being lifted by a crane while below an employee uses a grinder to smooth a propeller at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Welder at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee uses an acetylene cutting torch to cut off rigging from ship hull part at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Worker at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee using a grinder on a grinding gear blank (end user Hammond Lumber Co.) at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Welder at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An unidentified employee uses an acetylene cutting torch to cut off rigging from a ship hull part at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Worker at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee using a small electric grinder on a cast pin at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Worker at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee using an electric swing frame grinder on a steel-cast component at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Pouring steel in the Columbia Steel Casting Company foundry
Workers pouring steel from the ladle into molds in the Columbia Steel Casting Company foundry. Pictured to the left of the ladle is Lee Beavers. In the foreground of the picture, D. C. Gore, furnace department foreman, is preparing to put riser compound on the riser top once pouring is complete.
Atkeson, Ray
Lifting steel-castings with a crane at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An unidentified worker helps guide a large steel-cast component being lifted by a crane at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Welder at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee using an acetylene cutting torch to remove a riser from a casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Welder at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee repair welding on a casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Worker at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee using a small pneumatic grinder to blend the parting line on a casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Worker at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee uses a pneumatic chipping gun to clean a casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Mold-making at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee working on cores and making pouring cups at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Employees at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Two employees using grinders and chisels on a bullion pot casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Packing sand into a casting flask at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee at Columbia Steel Casting Company using a pneumatic rammer to pack sand in the drag (bottom) of a mold.
Atkeson, Ray
Worker at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee uses a pneumatic chipping gun with repair welding goes on behind him at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Worker at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee using a large swing frame grinder on a ship stern hull casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Worker at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee using a hand grinder on a ship hull casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Filling molds at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Four employees using a lip pour ladle to pour a large mold at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Worker at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee using a pencil grinder on a casting prior to repair welding at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Building a mold at Columbia Steel Casting Company
A molder using a trowel to fine tune a large ship hull casting before the cores are set at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Worker at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee adds material into an arc furnace at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Lifting stern frame castings with a crane at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee helps guide a large stern frame casting being lifted by a crane at Columbia Steel Casting Company. Another worker is visible in the crane operator booth at the upper center of the photograph.
Atkeson, Ray
A ship propeller at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Two unidentified workers guide a ship's propeller on a crane at Columbia Steel Casting Company. Another worker is visible operating the crane from a booth in the upper portion of the photograph.
Atkeson, Ray
Worker at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee adjusts the torches used to keep two lip pour ladles hot, before being filled with molten steel at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Worker at Columbia Steel Casting Company
A molder setting cores in a deep mold at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray