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Production. Fifty-foot steel ramp boats. Launching a fifty-foot steel ramp boat, just completed at a Southern boatyard. Boats of this kind, powered by twin diesel engines, are used in making beach landings of men, tanks and other equipment on hostile shores. After a trial run this boat will be remov
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Credit lineProduction. Fifty-foot steel ramp boats. Launching a fifty-foot steel ramp boat, just completed at a Southern boatyard. Boats of this kind, powered by twin diesel engines, are used in making beach lan. 1942-01-01. Hollem, Howard R., United States. Office Of War Information. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress. Public domain.
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