Building the Mobil Arctic

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Building the Mobil Arctic - Part 3

( All photos Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company )

Typed on back: "Unit L-2 basket erected 10-2-71; Unit L-4 basket erected 10-5-71;

Unit M-2 P/ bottom shell erected 10-5-71; Unit M-2 /S bottom shell erected 10-6-71".

Typed on back: "L-4 erected 10-5-71; L-6 erected 10-7-71; L-8 erected 10-15-71; L-10 erected 10-20-71;

L-11 erected 10-27-71; M-3 P/ erected 10-14-71; M-3 /S erected 10-13-71; M-7 P/ erected 10-21-71;

M-7 /S erected 10-22-71; M-9 P/S erected 10-26-71; Forward end looking aft".

Typed on back: "Lower stern frame assembly erected 11-3-71".

Typed on back: "After end: 27' flat erected to Fr. 35 P/S; G-21 lower side shell unit erected 12-9-71;

G-20 side shell unit P/S erected 12-4-71; Upper stern frame unit erected 12-15-71".

Typed on back: "HULL #657 FWD END 12-16-71 Transv. Wing Bhd. p-2 P/ Bottom Section erected 12-3-71 Transv. Wing Bhd.

P-2 /S Bottom Section erected 12-6-71 Transv. Wing Bhd. p-2 p/ Upper Section erected 12-7-71 Transv. Bhd.

Wing P-2 /S Upper Section erected 12-8-71 Transv. Wing Bhd. (awash) P-3 p/ erected 12-11-71 Transv. Bhd.

Wing (awash) P-3 /s erected 12-11, -71 Lower Side Shell Unit P-14/15 P/S Erected 12-14-71 N-4/5

Lower Long'l Bhds. P/S erected 11-15-71 N-9/10 Upper Long'l Bhds. P/S erected 11-18-71 N-11/12

Lpwer Long'l 3hds. P/S erected 11-23-71 N-15/16 Upper Longtl Bhds. P/S erected 11-23-71 H-17/18

Lower Long'l Bhda. P/ erected 11-24-71 /S 11-2I4-71 N-19/20 Upper Long'l Bhds. P/ erected 11-30-71 /S 12- -71

Transv. Bhd. l»-6 £/ ( Bhd #82 ) erected 11-18-71 Transv. Bhd.3waah"~ ( Bhd. #87 ) erected 11-19-71

Transv. Bhd. P-1 P/ erected 12"-2-71 Transv. Bhd. P-l stbd. erected 12-3-71 Fwd End Swash Bhd. # 77

Unit N-l 0 Erected 11-11-71 Long'l Bhd's Unit K-lf/5 P/S Erected 11-15-71"

Typed on back: "Hull #657's profile photograph taken on 1-24-72".

Typed on back: "Unit G-36, transv. wing bhd. and Unit G-35 P/S both erected 1-15-72;

Unit G-27 W 16 bhd. P/S erected 1-15-72; 1-24-72: Unit G-28 /S erected 1-23-72".

Typed on back: "After end, after peak assembly: H-1 erected 2-18; H-1 P/ erected 2-21-72;

H-1 /S erected 2-21-72; H-2 erected 2-24-72; H-2 P/S erected 2-26-72".

( All photos Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company )