Notes on advanced shipbuilding techniques designed to provide economies of mass production into building of custom designed vessels, which are being introduced at 66-yr-old Bethlehem Steel shipyard acquired by General Dynamics Corp in 1964; among these, steel cleaning facility is able to clean three-dimensional sub-assemblies of up to 75 tons in weight by blasting them with some 8 tons of steel shot/min; this process, which previously took average of 50 hr when carried out manually, is now effected in some 5 hr per sub-assembly. (27311)
Quincy, Massachusetts. General Dynamics modernises old American shipyard
Shipbldg Shipping Rec
Shipbuilding and Shipping Record ; 113 , n 1
1969
3 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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