USS Haynsworth
USS ''Haynsworth'' (DD-700), was an of the United States Navy. Namesake William McCall Haynsworth Jr. was born on 16 January 1901 in Darlington, South Carolina. He was appointed Midshipman from the Sixth Congressional District of South Carolina 19 June 1919. After graduation from the United States Naval Academy he reported for duty on board the destroyer on 16 June 1924, and was detached in April 1928 for postgraduate instruction in mechanical engineering at the Naval Academy, followed by postgraduate work at various colleges and industrial plants. He was assigned to the cruiser on 10 November 1930 and detached in February 1934 to serve at the Naval Research Laboratory, Bellevue, District of Columbia until June 1936 when he was ordered to ''Houston'' as Assistant Fire Control Officer. In April 1939 he reported to Charleston Navy Yard in connection with fitting out of . He assumed command of ''Ingraham'' 19 July 1941 and with the outbreak of World War II commenced escort duty ...
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Federal Shipbuilding And Drydock Company
The Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company was a United States shipyard, active from 1917 to 1948. It was founded during World War I to build ships for the United States Shipping Board. During World War II, it built ships as part of the U.S. Government's Emergency Shipbuilding program. Operated by a subsidiary of the U.S. Steel, United States Steel Corporation, the shipyard was located at Kearny Point where the mouth of the Hackensack River meets Newark Bay in the Port of New York and New Jersey. The shipyard site is now part of River Terminal, a massive distribution facility that is partially a Foreign trade zones of the United States, foreign trade zone. Federal built numerous destroyers, destroyer escorts and a handful of light cruisers as well as merchant ships during and between the wars. Around 570 vessels were contracted for construction by Federal SB&DD Company with about 100 not delivered fully completed due to the end of the World War II. Federal also had a yard at Port ...
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