Talk:Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company

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Looking for a final close year / date of the shipyard. As near as I can tell, it should be 1948, not 1949. I found the following items while researching newspaper articles pertaining to the end of Federal [S&DDC] in Kearny, NJ. --Dual Freq (talk) 02:08, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

• Major East Coast ship yard strike, with 4,000 more workers threatening to strike at Federal [S&DDC] in Kearny, NJ. - "41,500 walk out of 10 east coast Ship Yards". Tipton Tribune. INS. June 26, 1947.

• 95,000 workers on strike, including 4,000 that began striking July 1, 1947 at US Steel's Federal [S&DDC], Kearny, NJ. - "More Shipyard Workers Strike". New Castle News. INS. July 1, 1947.

• 140-day strike ended with an agreement November 13, 1947 between CIO workers and Federal [S&DDC], Kearny, NJ - "Ship Builders End Strike". Evening Telegraph November 14, 1947. Dixon, IL. AP.

• April 23, 1948 President of Federal [S&DDC], subsidiary of US Steel Corp. Lynn H. Korndorff announced that the US Navy had agreed to purchase the "shipbuilding yard and principal facilities at Kearney, New Jersey" for around $2,375,000, the depreciated book value of the assets. Yard to be transferred after "completion of the work now in process." - "Navy Buys New Jersey Shipyard". Indiana Evening Gazette. AP. April 23, 1948.

• Navy said it purchased Kearny, NJ yard as a standby, for emergency use and would offer a lease to keep it in readiness. 5,000 workers, sale price $2,375,000 - "US Steel has gone out of the shipbuilding business". Press Telegram. Long Beach, CA. April 22, 1948.

• July 1948 Waterman Steamship Corp bought an 8,000 ton floating dry dock from Kearny, NJ and shipped it to Gulf Shipbuilding Corp yards in Chickasaw. - "Big Floating Dry Dock coming to Mobile". Dothan Eagle. AP. July 28, 1948.

Union Minerals and Alloys Corporation appears to have scrapped some ships at formal Federal Shipyard in Kearny. USS Essex CV-9 [1] is one example. --Dual Freq (talk) 02:52, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

Does anyone have NY Times access? They have the obituary of long time Federal Shipbuilding president (c.1920s – 1948) Lynn Herman Korndorff (1883–1959) perhaps it mentions the years he was president of this company. It seems to be from the 1920s to the end in 1948. - "Lynn H. Korndorff Is Dead at 76; Ex-Head of Federal Shipbuilding". The New York Times. August 12, 1959. p. 29. --Dual Freq (talk) 19:38, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

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"automobile terminal parking lot in the 2010s" is incorrect

The automobile import terminal is two miles south of the Federal Shipbuilding site, directly on Newark Bay - the automobile terminal is south of the Newark Bay Bridge of the NJ Turnpike. The Federal Shipbuilding site, however, is north of the point where the Hackensack and Passaic rivers join to form Newark Bay; Federal Shipbuilding is between the former HD Draw railroad bridge and the Rt 1-9 Truck (Lincoln Highway) bridge. The Federal Shipbuilding site is now the industrial park surrounding the Hudson County Correctional Facility, which is also known as the Kearny Point industrial park (http://www.kearnypoint.com/). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.243.177.81 (talk) 13:20, 8 August 2017 (UTC)