Throughout the late 1940s and 1950s Vickers - Armstrongs ( renamed Vickers Shipbuilding from 1965 ) had vigorously ... corollary of the inexorable tendency of British shipbuilders to price themselves out of global commercial markets .
Author: Michael Lindberg
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group
ISBN: 0275979245
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 256
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This important study details one of the most monumental industrial undertakings in history from an economic geographic perspective.The Second World War Shipbuilding and repair quickly came under the command of the British Admiralty, with three owners of private shipbuilding and repair firms in overall supervisory control of merchant shipbuilding by 1 February ...
Author: Raquel Varela
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
ISBN: 9789048530724
Category: History
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Seaborne trade is the backbone of the world economy. About 90 percent of world trade is transported by ships. Since World War II, shipbuilding has gone through major changes. While the global construction volume increased enormously, British initial dominance was first undermined by Japanese competition from the 1950s, but then Japan was in turn overtaken by South Korea in the 1990s, only to be outcompeted by the People's Republic of China since the 2008 crisis. Labour processes and employment relations have changed dramatically during these shifts. In twenty-four case studies, covering all continents, this volume reconstructs the development of the world's shipbuilding and ship repairs industries, and the workers' responses to these historical transformations.Canadian Shipbuilding during the Second World War James Pritchard. King, W.L. Mackenzie. ... Vancouver and London: University of British Columbia Press, 1982. ... Anglo-American Shipbuilding in World War II: A Geographical Perspective.
Author: James Pritchard
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773585614
Category: History
Page: 440
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In A Bridge of Ships James Pritchard tells the story of the rapidly changing circumstances and forceful personalities that shaped government shipbuilding policy. He examines the ownership and expansion of the shipyards and the role of ship repairing, as well as recruitment and training of the labour force. He also tells the story of the struggle for steel and the expansion of ancillary industries. Pritchard provides a definitive picture of Canada's wartime ship production, assesses the cost (more than $1.2 billion), and explains why such an enormous effort left such a short-lived legacy. The story of Canada's shipbuilding industry is as astonishing as that of the nation's wartime navy. The personnel of both expanded more than fifty times, yet the history of wartime shipbuilding remains virtually unknown. With the disappearance of the Canadian shipbuilding industry from both the land and memory, it is time to recall and assess its contribution to Allied victory.Anglo-American Shipbuilding in World War II: A Geographical Perspective. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2004. Linsmayer, Nick. CEO, Villaume Corporation, St. Paul, MN. Lofaro, Guy. The Sword of St. Michael. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2011.
Author: Sara Witter Connor
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9781625849106
Category: History
Page: 343
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A look at how the Wisconsin lumber industry and the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory contributed to Allied efforts in World War II. Wisconsin’s trees heard “Timber” during World War II, as the forest products industry of the Badger State played a key role in the Allied aerial campaign. It was Wisconsin that provided the material for the De Havilland Mosquito, known as the “Timber Terror,” while the CG-4A battle-ready gliders, cloaked in stealthy silence, carried the 82nd and 101st Airborne into fierce fighting throughout Europe and the Pacific. Author Sara Witter Connor follows a forgotten thread of the American war effort, celebrating the factory workers, lumberjacks, pilots, and innovative thinkers of the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory who helped win a world war with paper, wood, and glue.British Naval Armaments Manufacture and the Military Industrial Complex, 1918-1941 Christopher Miller. Hamilton, C.I. “British Naval ... Lindberg, M. and Todd, D. Anglo-American Shipbuilding in World War II: A Geographical Perspective.
Author: Christopher Miller
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 9781786948823
Category: History
Page: 272
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This book examines the relationship between the private naval armaments industry, businessmen and the British government defence planners between the wars. It reassesses the concept of the Military-Industrial Complex through the impact of disarmament upon private industry, the role of leading industrialists in supply and procurement policy, and the successes and failings of government organisation.Anglo-American Shipbuilding in World War II: a geographical perspective. Praeger Publishing, Westport, CT. Mitchell, W H, & L A Sawyer, 1965. Empire ships of World War II. The Journal of Commerce and Shipping Telegraph, Liverpool.
Author: Nick Robins
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 9781848323780
Category: History
Page: 160
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In both World Wars there arose a pressing need for merchant tonnage both to supplement existing ships but, more importantly, to replace ships that had been sunk by enemy action, and the key to the Allied strategy in both wars was a massive programme of merchant shipbuilding. This need gave rise to a series of standard designs with increasing emphasis on prefabrication and a progression towards welded hulls.This new book tells the remarkable story of the design and construction of the many types that not only contributed to their countrys war efforts, but were also responsible for a cultural change in world shipbuilding that would lay the foundations for the post-war industry. The story begins in the First World War with the National type cargo ships which were the first examples of prefabricated construction. The best known of all types of wartime standard ships, of course, were the Liberty ships and their successor, the better equipped Victory ships, both built in the United States. Some 2,700 Liberty ships were built and this incredible achievement undoubtedly saved the Allies from losing the War. In Canada, the Ocean and Park ships made a further major contribution. Germany and Japan also introduced standard merchant shipbuilding programmes during the Second World War and these are covered in detail. The many different types and designs are all reviewed and their roles explained, while the design criteria, innovative building techniques and the human element of their successful operation is covered.Some of the story has been told piecemeal in a range of diverse books and articles, a few with extensive fleet lists. However, the complete history of the twentieth century wartime-built standard merchant ship has not previously been written, so this new volume recording that history within its appropriate technical, political and military background will be hugely welcomed.Conflict over Convoys examines the Battle of the Atlantic from the perspective of Anglo-American diplomacy, deepening our understanding of Allied grand strategy, British industrial policy, and operations TORCH and OVERLORD.
Author: Kevin Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521520304
Category: History
Page: 340
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Conflict over Convoys examines the Battle of the Atlantic from the perspective of Anglo-American diplomacy, deepening our understanding of Allied grand strategy, British industrial policy, and operations TORCH and OVERLORD. Failure to build and maintain enough ships to feed the people and wage war made Britain dependent upon American-built merchant ships and American logistical support, yet British strategists aspired to dominate Allied strategy, while Roosevelt mismanaged merchant shipping allocations. The resulting gap between strategic ambition and logistical reality embittered the controversy over the 'Second Front'. Victory in the Atlantic finally led to American dominance of Allied logistics diplomacy and strategy. Conflict over Convoys relates these tensions to the decline of British hegemony and the rise of the USA to global influence.The Allies and the Longest Campaign of the Second World War Marcus Faulkner, Christopher M. Bell ... of shipbuilding and ship repair in Kevin Smith, Conflict over Convoys: Anglo-American Logistics Diplomacy in the Second World War ...
Author: Marcus Faulkner
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 9781949668032
Category: History
Page: 322
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The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest campaign of the Second World War. This volume highlights the scale and complexity of this bitterly contested campaign, one that encompassed far more than just attacks by German U-boats on Allied shipping. The team of leading scholars assembled in this study situates the German assault on seaborne trade within the wider Allied war effort and provides a new understanding of its place within the Second World War. Individual chapters offer original perspectives on a range of neglected or previously overlooked subjects: how Allied grand strategy shaped the war at sea; the choices facing Churchill and other Allied leaders and the tensions over the allocation of scarce resources between theaters; how the battle spread beyond the Atlantic Ocean in both military and economic terms; the management of Britain's merchant shipping repair yards; the defense of British coastal waters against German surface raiders; the contribution of air power to trade defense; antisubmarine escort training; the role of special intelligence; and the war against the U-boats in the Arctic and Pacific Oceans.World War I For a broad, thorough survey of the U.S. Navy's role in the First World War, see William Still's Crisis at ... Michael Lindberg and Daniel Todd's Anglo-American Shipbuilding in World War II: A Geographical Perspective (2004) ...
Author: G. Kurt Piehler
Publisher: SAGE Publications
ISBN: 9781506307763
Category: History
Page: 1921
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The Encyclopedia of Military Science provides a comprehensive, ready-reference on the organization, traditions, training, purpose, and functions of today’s military. Entries in this four-volume work include coverage of the duties, responsibilities, and authority of military personnel and an understanding of strategies and tactics of the modern military and how they interface with political, social, legal, economic, and technological factors. A large component is devoted to issues of leadership, group dynamics, motivation, problem-solving, and decision making in the military context. Finally, this work also covers recent American military history since the end of the Cold War with a special emphasis on peacekeeping and peacemaking operations, the First Persian Gulf War, the events surrounding 9/11, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and how the military has been changing in relation to these events. Click here to read an article on The Daily Beast by Encyclopedia editor G. Kurt Piehler, "Why Don't We Build Statues For Our War Heroes Anymore?"The Triumphs and Tragedies of Two Montana Families Bill Vaughn ... Michael Lindberg and Daniel Todd, Anglo- American Shipbuilding in World War II: A Geographical Perspective (Westport ct: Greenwood Publishing, 2004), 153. 4.
Author: Bill Vaughn
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9781496229755
Category: History
Page: 258
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Bill Vaughn’s work explores the political and economic development of twentieth-century Montana as it was shaped by two families: the Herrins, who were Republican ranchers, and the Burkes, who were Democratic journalists, lawyers and politicians.