Launch of SS Zebulon B. Vance at the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company on 6 December 1941 (fsa.8b08631)
The Liberty ship SS Zebulon B. Vance (Type EC2-S-C1) shortly before its launch on 6 December 1941. It was the first ship to be built at the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company in Wilmington, North Carolina (USA). From 1941 through 1946, the company built 243 ships. SS Zebulon B. Vance was finally scrapped in 1970.
- Date
- 1941-12-06
- Photographer / author
- Farm Security Administration, U.S. Office of War Information
- Collection
- FSA/OWI
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 9,097 × 7,034 pixels
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