1918 SPEED-UP Submarine Boat Corporation WWI Ship Building Industry Magazine
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1918 SPEED-UP Submarine Boat Corporation WWI Ship Building Industry Magazine

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RARE, Antique WW1 Original…‘SPEED-UP’September 14, 1918Vol. 1, No. 34 (ANNIVERSARY NUMBER)Magazine Published by the Submarine Boat CorporationThis is a rare, original antique issue of ‘SPEED-UP’ a publication by the Submarine Boat Corporation during World War 1, documenting their war efforts, the ship building progress and industry during the war.The cover features a painting of the S.S. Agawam by RD Hedges. Measures 10 1/2” x 7 1/2”.64 pages.Some history:Submarine Boat Company (Submarine Boat Corporation) was a large-scale World War I ship manufacturing shipyard (Newark Bay Shipyard), located at New Jersey's Port of Newark. Submarine Boat Company operated as a subsidiary of the Electric Boat Company, now General Dynamics Electric Boat. Submarine Boat Corporation was founded in April 1915 to meet the demand for ships for World War I. Submarine Boat Corporation built the Design 1023 ships, this was a steel-hulled cargo ship like the SS AGAWAM portrayed on the cover (the first hull produ

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