Old Salt
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Location: San Freakcisco CA area | Subject: RE: Shipyards
Answering this question is tantamount to starting a holy war ... so I'll refer to CDR Allen's excellent book on the WWII Fleet Submarine -- in it, he placed Manitowoc built boats at the top of the heap for both quality and cleanliness. He placed EB at the bottom, mainly because their wartime manangement appeared to be more concerned with change claims than with progress -- remember, wartime improvement recommendations were coming back with each patrol. EB resisted making changes while Manitowoc jumped on them right away -- even though Manitowoc was a "follow yard" to EB and was, therefore, technically dependent upon EB's design and engineering process. |
