Swan Island Shipyard
The Swan Island Shipyard was a shipyard on Swan Island (Oregon), Swan Island in Portland, Oregon, United States. It was constructed by the industrialist Henry J. Kaiser in 1942 as part of the U.S. Maritime Commission's Emergency Shipbuilding Program in World War II. The Swan Island yard was one of three Kaiser Shipyards in the Portland area (all within a 4 mile radius), along with the Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation and the Vancouver Shipyard. Before the opening of the shipyard, Swan Island was the location of the Swan Island Municipal Airport. The Port of Portland (Oregon), Port of Portland leased the airport to the U.S. federal government in March 1942. The completed Swan Island yard began production in July 1942 with eight wikt:shipway, shipways. The Swan Island Shipyard was one of four shipyards in the United States specifically designed to produce T2 tankers. It produced 153 tankers over the course of the war, all of them of the T2-SE-A1 design. References External links

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USS Chepachet (AO-78)
USS ''Chepachet'' (AO-78), originally named SS ''Eutaw Springs'', and later known as USNS ''Chepachet'' (T-AOT-78) until disposition, was a Suamico class fleet replenishment oiler, ''Suamico''-class fleet oiler, of the T2 tanker, T2-SE-A1 tanker hull type, serving in the United States Navy during World War II. Originally a namesake of the Battle of Eutaw Springs when laid down 1 November 1942, she was renamed for the Chepachet River located in a village of Glocester, Rhode Island bearing Chepachet, Rhode Island, the same name. Service history Launch and commission ''Chepachet'' was ship naming and launching, launched on 10 March 1943 after being built at Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Chester, Pennsylvania, under Maritime Commission contract MC 340 as hull number 278 and USMC number 353. Sponsored by Mrs. I.G. Klemmer, the ship was ship commissioning, commissioned by the US Navy on 27 April 1943 and reported to the U.S. Atlantic Fleet, US Atlantic Fleet. Initial service Betw ...
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