[TheForge] Welding Liberty Ships

[Andrew Vida]

Yeah, the story kind of reeks of urban legend.  I cannot imagine even in 
those times that a shipyard would be so foolish as to pay based upon 
number of rods consumed.

JOHN CHOBRDA wrote:
> 	My late Aunt worked building ships during the war and I never heard
> that story, she said they got paid by the hour and how fast they could
> produce. I thought that when the ships that did break apart, it happened
> during the winter months in the North Atlantic and they sank, hard to
> inspect.
>