Electric Boat Company Ww2

electric boat company ww2

General dynamics electric boat (gdeb) is a subsidiary of general dynamics corporation. it has been the primary builder of submarines for the united states navy for more than 100 years. the company's main facilities are a shipyard in groton, connecticut, a hull-fabrication and outfitting facility in quonset point, rhode island, and a design and engineering facility in new london, connecticut. Worker at electric boat company, new london, connecticut, united states, 1943. submarine bluefish shortly after launching, groton, connecticut, united states, 21 feb 1943: submarines bonefish, cod, cero, and corvina under construction at the electric boat co. yard, groton, connecticut, united states, 7 mar 1943. Uss holland - in 1900, electric boat delivered the navy's first submarine, ushering in more than a century of u.s. undersea dominance.. fleet boats - electric boat launched 74 submarines from its shipyard in groton, conn., to support the u.s. navy in world war ii.. uss nautilus - electric boat designed and constructed the first nuclear-powered warship, which put to sea in 1954, giving the u.s.

Patrol torpedo boats - elco, higgins and huckins

Second world war submarine production - stock image v200

electric boat company ww2 The company's elco subsidiary builds 722 submarine chasers, while another subsidiary, the submarine boat co., builds 118 liberty ships. 1911: electric boat acquires the new london ship and engine co. in groton, ct, to build diesel engines and other machinery and parts for submarines and commercial ships.. During world war ii the elco naval division of the electric boat co., in bayonne, n.j., built nearly 400 patrol torpedo, or pt, boats for the u.s. navy. of those, 326 were 80 feet long—the largest in their class..