Ships build under the Merchant Marine Act of 1936

Ships build under the Merchant Marine Act of 1936

Mrs. Ira F. Lewis, wife of the president of the Pittsburgh Courier Publishing Company, presents a photo of the late Robert L. Vann, for whom a liberty ship named in his honor was launched at Portland, Maine, on October 10, to a representative, of the shipyard workers; The picture will be hung aboard the ship, as a gift from his widow, Mrs. Jessie Matthews Vann.

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Mrs.Jessie Matthews Vann (center) holding a bouquet of flowers and flanked by C.C. Spaulding (left), president of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, and Dr. Emmett J. Scott (right), of the Sun Shipbuilding Company, at the launching of Liberty ship SS Robert L. Vann, Portland, Maine, October 10, 1943. Also shown is Mrs. Daisy Lampkin (immediately behind Mr. Scott to the right), vice president of the Pittsburgh Courier Publishing Company.

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