(1943) How One Welder's STUPID Gasket Stopped 67 Ships From Breaking in Half
Автор: WW2 Forgotten Frontlines
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March 1943. The North Atlantic is a graveyard. German U-boats are sinking Allied ships faster than Britain can replace them.
But there's another killer no one's talking about.
Liberty ships — America's emergency cargo fleet — are breaking in half. Not from torpedoes. Not from storms. They're just... cracking apart at sea. Spontaneously. Catastrophically.
The SS John P. Gaines splits in two with 41 men aboard. The SS Schenectady breaks while tied to the dock. Seven ships lost in six weeks, and the Navy has no idea why.
Then a third-shift welder at a Baltimore shipyard — a guy who spent 16 years welding grain silos in Ohio — notices something with a simple ball-peen hammer that every MIT-educated naval architect missed.
His solution? A 12-cent piece of rubber.
What happens next will save 67 ships, 8,400 lives, and change naval engineering forever. But first, the Navy will try to stop him three times.
This is the declassified story of the man who heard what no one else could hear, and fixed what everyone said was impossible.
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