Vancouver Public Library, Special Collections, VPL 15600.
1941
North Sand Ships
The keel of the SS Fort St. James was laid on March 23, 1941, launching the North Sands ships. Mass-production techniques quickly allowed efficiency to improve so that the last North Sands ship built, in 1943, took only three and a half months, compared with the nine months needed for the first ship.
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