Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). Hand trades are important in the building of wooden boats for the Navy. This man working with a chisel on a beam of a motor torpedo boat in a Southern shipyard performs an essential war task. Higgins Industries Creator(s): Hollem, Howard R., photographer Rel

Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). A Negro carpenter working on the framing of a motor torpedo boat at a large Southern shipyard. These fast seventy-eight-footers are built indoors of prefabricated parts and sections. When the hulls are ready for launching and fitting they are moved from the

Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). A carpenter at a Southern shipyard checks the framing of a new seventy-eight-foot motor boat. 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 I

Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). Wooden motor torpedo boats for the Navy are built of prefabricated parts and sections in a large Southern shipyard. These fast seventy-eight-footers are built under roof and moved to a nearby waterway for launching and fitting. Higgins Industries Creator(s)

Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). Planking a new seventy-eight-foot motor torpedo boat at a large Southern shipyard. These speedy wooden vessels are built of prefabricated parts and sections under roof. When the hull is ready for launching and fitting it is removed from the plant to nearby w

Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden).

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

Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). A Negro carpenter at a Southern shipyard runs a heavy plank through a power saw. He works on the building of seventy-eight-foot wooden torpedo boats which are produced in great numbers at this yard. The hulls of these speedy motor-driven boats are built indo

Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). Checking a prefabricated section for a wooden torpedo boat at a Southern shipyard. Many fast seventy-eight-foot motor driven boats of this class are built here indoors, of ready-made sections. The completed hulls are then moved to nearby water for launching