Keywords: architecture Lot-2068-5: Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Norfolk, Virginia. One of the major advances in shipbuilding during the last few years has been the substitution of welding for rivets in a number of vital parts of Warcraft. Welding means much less weight and much less steel for each ship. This welder, working on the nose section of a new destroyer, is one of hundreds working on vessels under construction at Norfolk. Office of War Information photograph, circa October 1941. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. (2016/04/14). Lot-2068-5: Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Norfolk, Virginia. One of the major advances in shipbuilding during the last few years has been the substitution of welding for rivets in a number of vital parts of Warcraft. Welding means much less weight and much less steel for each ship. This welder, working on the nose section of a new destroyer, is one of hundreds working on vessels under construction at Norfolk. Office of War Information photograph, circa October 1941. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. (2016/04/14). |