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Launch ceremony "Chatterton Hill"
Charles Andrews wrote to me :
My grandmother and mother christened the S. S. Chatterton Hill at its launch at Mobile, Alabama in 1944.
The Alabama Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company gave the family a photo album.
Would you like a copy of photos of the christening and launch?
My grandfather, Edouard F. Henriques, was a maritime attorney and during the war was regional attorney for the United States
Wartime Shipping Administration and Maritime Commission for the Gulf Coast Region.
Please look at the EXIF tags in the JPG files to identify my parents and grandparents. My father was on Okinawa when I was born in 1945.
Unfortunately, I cannot identify the Alabama Dry Dock and Turner Construction Company personnel who may be in some of the photos.
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Sponsor Mrs. Edouard Henriques.
Sponsor Mrs. Edouard Henriques & Co-sponsor. Mr. Edouard F. Henriques, Regional attorney for the United States Wartime
Shipping Administration and Maritime Commission for the Gulf Coast Region
Minutes before launch.
Ceremony.
Launch of the "Chatterton Hill", September 8th, 1944.
Mr. Edouard Henriques & sponsor Mrs. Edouard Henriques. Co-Sponsor and her husband.
After party at Alabama Dry Dock & Shipbuilding Co., Mobile, Alabama, September 8th, 1944.