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Farrell Lines, Incorporated is a U.S.-based shipping company specializing in roll-on/roll-off cargo transportation. Founded in 1925 as the American South African Line by James A. Farrell Jr. and John
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1938 sailing schedule and passenger fare brochure of the American South African Line
8,272 GRT passenger motorship City of New York, built in 1930 by Sun Ship Building and Dry Dock Co for American South African Line (Farrell Lines). In 1942 she was sunk by torpedo by the German submarine U-160.
Vintage travel poster promoting Farrell Lines' ocean passenger service between the U.S. and South Africa
The Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company was a United States shipyard in New Jersey active from 1917 to 1948. It was founded during World War I to build ships for the United States Shipping Board.
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…Franklin, general manager for Argonaut Lines; Leigh C. Palmer, former president of the Emergency Fleet Corporation; Lynn H. Korndorff, president of the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company; and Eugene P. Thomas, president of the National Foreign Trade Council. Together, these individuals leveraged their expertise to establish a company…
Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, 1945
Aerial view of Federal Shipbuilding in May 1945
May 1942 launch of USS Fletcher (DD-445) and USS Radford (DD-446) at Federal. 2 of the 4 destroyers launched on May 4, 1942.
Site of the former Federal yard at Kearny in foreground on left, c.1974.