Sources for the Data on U.S. Shipbuilding

(1)     "The Shipbuilding Business in the United States of America" (Fassett, ed., SNAME, 1948)

(2)     "Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships, 1860-1905" (Chesneau and Kolesnik, Conway Maritime Press, 1979)

(3)     "Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships, 1906-1921" (Gray, Conway Maritime Press, 1985)

(4)     "Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships, 1922-1946" (Chesneau, Conway Maritime Press, 1980)

(5)     "Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships, 1947-1995" (Chumbley, Conway Maritime Press, 1995)

(6)     "Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1775-1990" (Bauer and Roberts, Greenwood Press, 1991)

(7)     "History of U.S. Naval Operations in WWII", Volume XV (Morison, Little Brown & Co., 1984)

(8)     "Combat Fleets of the World" (Naval Institute Press, various years)

(9)     "The Ships and Aircraft of the U.S. Fleet" (Fahey, Naval Institute Press, various years)

(10)   "U.S. Small Combatants" (Friedman, Naval Institute Press, 1987)

(11)   "U.S. Amphibious Ships and Craft" (Friedman, Naval Institute Press, 2002)

(12)   "U.S. Coast Guard Cutters & Craft of World War II" (Scheina, Naval Institute Press, 1982)

(13)   "U.S. Army Ships and Watercraft of World War II" (Grover, Naval Institute Press, 1987)

(14)   "Report of Army Small Boat Construction , 1 July 1940 to 31 May 1945" (War Department, 1945)

(15)   "Sail Army" (Harding, Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, 2005)

(16)   "US Naval Vessels 1943" (Naval Institute Press, 1986)

(17)   "Warships of World War II" (Lenton & Colledge, Ian Allan, 1964)

(18)   "From America to United States: The History of the Long-Range Merchant Shipbuilding Program of the US Maritime Commission" (Sawyer and Mitchell, World Ship Society, 1984)

(19)   "The Liberty Ships" (Sawyer and Mitchell, Lloyd's Press, 1970)

(20)   "Victory Ships and Tankers" (Sawyer and Mitchell, Lloyd's Press, 1974)

(21)   "The Oceans, the Forts and the Parks" (Sawyer and Mitchell, Sea Breezes, 1966)

(22)   "Ships for Victory" (Lane, Johns Hopkins Press, 1954)

(23)   "The Liberty Ship Page" (www.fiu.edu/~thompsop/liberty/liberty1.html)

(24)   "The T-2 Tanker Page" (www.t2tanker.org)

(25)   "Once There Was An Industry" (www.perbro.dk)

(26)   "Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships" (www.hazegray.org/danfs/)

(27)   "Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships" (www.history.navy.mil/danfs/index.html)

(28)   "NAVSOURCE Photo Archive" (www.navsource.org)

(29)   "Naval Vessel Register" (www.nvr.navy.mil)