The Casablanca-class escort carriers were America’s secret weapon in WWII, a fleet of 50 “jeep carriers” mass-produced with ...

The KAISER PERMANENTE MEDICAL CARE PROGRAM evolved from industrial health care programs for construction, shipyard, and steel-mill workers for the Kaiser industrial companies during the late 1930s and ...

For resident Steven Mallari — born at the Kaiser Permanente Vallejo Medical Center, a graduate of Hogan High School, and married to his high school sweetheart — the city is more than just the place he ...

Richmond's shipbuilding industry, led by Kaiser Shipyards, was pivotal to the war effort—the city's four shipyards produced 747 ships, more than any other complex in the United States.

From World War I through the Cold War, Mare Island and its neighbor Kaiser Shipyards in Richmond were hubs of the industry, launching hundreds of ships and submarines into the Pacific and ...

It’s now common knowledge that commercial shipbuilding is in crisis in the United States, and has been for decades—and this revelation is triggering something like universal panic.

Kaiser’s ships were finished in two-thirds of the time and a quarter of the cost of other shipyards. Each of these so-called Liberty ships was built in about two weeks, and one in less than five days.

The Shipyard, a Columbus, Ohio-based advertising agency, has announced that the San Diego office has been designated as the agency’s California headquarters.

Civilian mariners and employees who work at the Navy’s public shipyards and maintenance entities are exempt from an ongoing hiring freeze across the Department of Defense, the Navy’s top ...

One group of items dear to the hearts of Oregonians were the Liberty ships — cargo and troop carriers — produced by Kaiser Shipyards’ Oregon Shipbuilding Corp. along the Willamette River in ...