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Article: GETTING THE PAST SHIPSHAPE ; Redeveloped Hingham property includes `walking museum' chronicling heyday of World War II shipyard
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 10, 2009
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U p to 23,000 workers a day once toiled around the clock at the
Hingham Shipyard to build state-of-the-art destroyers that played a
major role in shoring up Allied seafaring might during the height of
US involvement in World War II.
Pulling that volume of workers together was no small feat.
Hingham had just 8,000 residents at the time, so laborers traveled
there from as far as New Hampshire to work at the shipyard, and the
assembly lines included 2,700 women. Trained by skilled workers
borrowed from Quincy's Fore River Shipyard, the Hingham Shipyard's
workforce produced 227 ships over 3 1/2 years beginning in 1942, far
exceeding the government's expectation of 60 ships a year and even ...