Ford Eagle Boats Part 2

Description

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Eagle boat on transfer table, spectators, plant - boat moving along track to lowering table, river, large overhead cranes in background - Eagle boat lowered into water, moves out of launching area - view of high doors in plant - side of long plant building. “Built of steel, glass, and concrete, this building is 1750 feet long, 350 feet wide and 100 feet high, covering more than 13 acres under one roof and was erected in 17 days.” “Nowhere in the ship will be found a forging, a shape, a rolled beam. Everything is pressed from the sheet cold by means of automatic machinery.” Keel shored up on flatcar - men working on deck of ship - workers riveting side plating - screw support - shaft added - propeller attached to shaft - screw turning - workers on scaffolding at side of ship and on deck - pipe on deck near partially completed rail - men working on deck - worker at side of boat. “Industrial America is the greatest army of fighters in the world. American workers are forging the tools that will force the road to Berlin.” “The Eagle boat is to all purposes and intents a destroyer, but without the usual torpedo tubes and special equipment patent to the destroyer.” Men working on shoring under boat. “With less speed than the 30 knot destroyer, the ‘Eagle’ will have enough to overtake the fastest submarine and will carry guns and depth bombs, bitter pills for the Kaiser.” Side plating of cabin lifted onto deck. Lowering the keelson onto the shoring, workers begin to work - section of keel and stern lowered onto shoring - plating lying against shoring - railroad train, buildings, water tower, pile driver - views from above of Eagle boat at dock, railroad tracks, workers - boats at dock, river, construction site, pile drivers on far side of river - men alighting from trucks - men boarding trucks. “After the boat has floated off the lowering table, the table is raised again by hydraulic power and prepared for another launching.” Lowering table under water, workers - Eagle boat. “Across the way from the ‘Eagle’ plant the Navy has established a cantonment where crews are being trained to man the ‘Eagles.’” [1918]

Collection

Ford Motor Company Collection

Series

Motion Picture Films Relating to the Ford Motor Company, the Henry Ford Family, Noted Personalities, Industry, and Numerous Americana and Other Subjects