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Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). Applying planking to a new seventy-eight-foot torpedo boat in a large Southern shipyard. The hulls of these speedy wooden boats are built indoors of prefabricated parts and sections, and are then moved to nearby water for launching and fitting. Higgins Indus
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Credit lineProduction. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). Applying planking to a new seventy-eight-foot torpedo boat in a large Southern shipyard. The hulls of these speedy wooden boats are built indoors of prefabric. 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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