Ocean ship [SEP] service entry
Bath Iron Shipbuilding entity.
On 14 January 1941 groundbreaking took place for the new yard on a 48-acre site at Richmond, with the keel for the first Ocean ship laid seventy-eight days later on 14 April. With a contract from the Maritime Commission for twenty-four emergency type ships of the Liberty class, Kaiser began construction of six ways at his nearby Richmond Shipbuilding Corporation yards four days later.
The sunken basins in the Maine yard were the first in the world used to mass-produce ships.
USS DeKalb (ID-3010)
USS "DeKalb" (ID-3010) was a German mail ship that served during the early part of the First World War as an auxiliary cruiser ("Hilfkreuzer") in the German Navy and later after the US entry into the war, as US Navy troop ship. Post war she returned to civilian service as the US transatlantic liner SS "Mount Clay".
German civilian service.
The ship was a North German Lloyd (NDL) mail ship and ocean liner built by AG