Kaiser’s Northwest shipyards, and four other Kaiser shipyards in Richmond, California, contributed heavily to supporting the war effort during World War II. Kaiser’s Northwest shipyards produced 752 ships during the war years.Īt their peak at the end of 1942, the shipyards in the Northwest employed 97,000 workers, including many migrating from outside the region. The shipyard boom played a major role in reshaping the social, political, and economic history of Portland, which had a pre-war population of 340,000 residents. Kaiser established three shipyards in the Pacific Northwest, two in Portland and one in Vancouver, Washington. During World War II, industrialist Henry J.
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