Froemming Brothers
Froemming Brothers of Milwaukee, Wisconsin was a shipyard that built ships for World War II under the emergency shipbuilding program, War Shipping Administration and United States Navy. Froemming Brothers shipyard was opened in 1942 by Ben Froemming (1902-1945). Froemming Brothers closed after the war in 1945, after building 26 ships. The shipyard was located on the north side of the Kinnickinnic River (Milwaukee River tributary), Kinnickinnic River. The shipyard had 2,400 workers in three shifts. In 1945 it was sold to Wagner Iron Works and later sold to the Milwaukee Marine Yacht. The site today is Horny Goat Marina, Blue Max Charters and Clete Long Enterprises. The shipyard was in Bay View, Milwaukee neighborhood at . Legacy Ben Froemming died in 1945 near the end of the war. The last ship built at the yard had its name changed before the Ceremonial ship launching, christening. The SS ''Tapir Splice'' a C1-M-AV1 Cargo ship was renamed the SS ''Ben Froemming'' and delivered to ...
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USS Allentown (PF-52) 9 August 1944
USS ''Allentown'' (PF-52), a United States Navy in commission from 1944 to 1945, has thus far been the only U.S. Navy ship to be named for Allentown, Pennsylvania. She later served in the Soviet Navy as ''EK-9'' and in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force as JDS ''Ume'' (PF-9), JDS ''Ume'' (PF-289) and as ''YAC-14''. Construction and commissioning ''Allentown'' was Keel laying, laid down on 23 March 1943, at the Froemming Brothers, Inc., shipyard in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, under a Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1477). Ship naming and launching, Launched on 3 July 1943, sponsored by Miss Joyce E. Beary, she was moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, where she Fitting-out, fitted out and was Ship commissioning, commissioned on 24 March 1944. Service history U.S. Navy, World War II, 1944–1945 ''Allentown'' departed New Orleans on 3 April 1944 bound for shakedown cruise, shakedown training at Bermuda. After about a month of training, she set a course for New York City e ...
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