Production. Fifty-foot steel ramp boats. Cordage fenders for use on fifty-foot steel ramp boats under construction at a Southern boatyard. These fenders are made of jute rope to save the manila cordage formerly employed for this purpose. The steel ramp boats on which they will be used are for the landing of men, tanks and other equipment on hostile shores
Summary
Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).
Title and other information from caption card.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
Film copy on SIS roll 31, frame 1929.
Large WWII photograph collection made with aid of image recognition.
Tags
safety film negatives
howard r hollem
united states office of war information
photo
fifty foot steel ramp boats
steel ramp boats
cordage fenders
cordage
fenders
southern boatyard
jute rope
office of war information
farm security administration
united states history
home front
wwii
world war 2
library of congress
Date
01/01/1942
in collections
Location
united states
Source
Library of Congress
Link
Copyright info
Public Domain