The Hog Islanders

Goldberg, Mark H.: 1991 New York, softcover 264 pages, with photo's, history of all 122 Hog Islanders, built in WW1 as standard ships, but never served that war, because the war was ended. The 122 ships served for many years in the Merchant Navy, The Hog Islanders by Mark H. Goldberg recounts the conception, rushed construction, and postwar careers of the 122 standardized cargo ships built at Philadelphia’s Hog Island shipyard, explaining how they missed World War I service yet became a ubiquitous, workaday backbone of the interwar and World War II merchant fleets through detailed vessel histories, photos, and service records. Framed as Volume I of an American merchant marine history series, the book offers a ship-by-ship chronicle that traces design, ownership changes, renamings, and fates, turning an oft-maligned mass-production experiment into a coherent narrative of American industrial mobilization and maritime commerce between 1918 and the 1950s. ISBN 1879180015  In good condition