122.39315°W / 37.66669; -122.39315 The Western Pipe and Steel Company (WPS) was an American manufacturing company that is best remembered today for its...
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President of the Western Pipe and Steel Company of San Francisco, California in the 1910s, and who later became head of the Richfield Oil Company based in the...
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clear ice. (as originally fitted during World War II) Builder: Western Pipe and Steel Company (WPS) San Pedro, California Power Plant: six Fairbanks Morse...
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Mississippi, and Western Pipe and Steel Company of San Francisco, California. The Bogue class displaced 8,390 long tons (8,520 t) at standard load and 13,980...
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HMS Striker (D12) (section Design and description)
was assigned to MC hull 198, a converted C3 laid down by the Western Pipe and Steel Company, San Francisco, California, 15 December 1941. Designated for...
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WPS (section Computing and telecommunications)
political party Women's Police Service, a voluntary organisation Western Pipe and Steel Company Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corporation, a not-for-profit...
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USS Chandeleur (section Cargo and tender operations)
Western Pipe and Steel Company, San Francisco, California, under a Maritime Commission contract; transferred to the U.S. Navy 19 November 1942; and commissioned...
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HMS Stalker (D91) (section Design and description)
C-3 hulls and transferred to the Royal Navy under Lend Lease during World War II. The ship was launched by Western Pipe and Steel Company, San Francisco...
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The Columbia Steel Company, sometimes shortened to Columbia Steel, is an American steel company headquartered in the state of Oregon. It had its origins...
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at the Western Pipe and Steel Company shipyards in San Pedro, California, she was christened by Mrs. Ona Jones and launched on 8 March 1943, and commissioned...
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sold to U.S. Steel together with Consolidated's assets in Los Angeles and whatever was obtained from the merger with Western Pipe and Steel elsewhere. However...
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HMS Fencer (D64) (section Design and description)
freighter, under Maritime Commission contract, MC hull #197, by Western Pipe and Steel Company, in San Francisco, California. The hull was purchased by the...
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laid down on 23 June 1942 at Western Pipe and Steel Company shipyards in San Pedro. She was launched on 6 February 1943 and commissioned on 3 June 1944...
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steamship with home port San Francisco. She was built in 1919 by Western Pipe and Steel Company, and owned by United States Shipping Board. During a storm on...
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USCGC Burton Island (section Decommissioning and sale)
laid on 15 March 1946 at Western Pipe and Steel Company shipyards in San Pedro, California, she was launched on 30 April 1946, and commissioned on 28 December...
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ship built in 1919 by the Western Pipe and Steel Company of California. She was one of eighteen ships built by the company for the U.S. Shipping Board...
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Pumpkin bomb (category Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki)
Steel Corporation and Western Pipe and Steel Company, while the 'California Parachute' tail assembly was produced by Centerline Company of Detroit. After...
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Type C3-class ship (section Modified and redesignated)
Corporation, WA: 43 Western Pipe and Steel Company, CA: 43 Bethlehem Sparrows Point Shipyard, MD: 21 Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, NJ: 19 Newport...
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HMS Attacker (D02) (redirect from SS Steel Artisan)
merchantman Steel Artisan was laid down on 17 April 1941, under a Maritime Commission contract, MC hull 171, by Western Pipe and Steel Company of San Francisco...
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USS Cascade (section Decommissioning and sale)
passenger-freighter, the Cascade was launched on 6 June 1942 by Western Pipe and Steel Company in San Francisco, California. The ship was sponsored by Mrs...
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Nationalities and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia Aleta Wendo, the administrative center of the woreda West Aleta, a ship of the Western Pipe and Steel Company Aelita...
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laid down on 9 June 1942 at Western Pipe and Steel Company shipyards in San Pedro, California, launched on 28 December 1942 and commissioned on 26 February...
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was laid on 24 March 1942 at Western Pipe and Steel Company shipyards in San Pedro. She was launched on 31 March 1943 and commissioned on 18 September...
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Online. Mawdsley, Dean L. (2002): Steel Ships and Iron Pipe: Western Pipe and Steel Company of California, the Company, the Yard, the Ships, Glencannon...
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HDPE pipe is a type of flexible plastic pipe used to transfer fluids and gases. It is often employed for replacing aging concrete or steel main pipelines...
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USS Hemminger (category World War II frigates and destroyer escorts of the United States)
September 1943 by the Western Pipe and Steel Company, San Francisco, California; sponsored by Mrs. Sue Frances Hemminger, widow; and commissioned on 30 May...
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PT Krakatau Steel (Persero) Tbk (Krakatau Steel Company Limited) is the largest steel maker in Indonesia, headquartered in Cilegon, Banten. The factory...
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USS Chilton (section Military honors and awards)
credit. Chilton (APA-38) was launched 29 December 1942 by the Western Pipe and Steel Company, San Francisco, California, under a Maritime Commission contract...
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"Bethlehem Steel Company, San Pedro CA". Shipbuilding History. Retrieved 9 February 2021. "Western Pipe & Steel Co., South San Francisco CA and San Pedro...
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Destroyer escort (section Notes and references)
States Naval Operations in World War II. Vol. XV. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. pp. 50–52. "Ships' Data -- U.S. Naval Vessels - BuShips". Lenton 1998...
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