What is the record for building a ship the fastest?
When Henry J. Kaiser came up with the idea to replace welding with rivets, the Richmond Shipyard was able to turn out a ship a day, which used to take a month.
The fastest destroyer was built in a week.
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Liberty ships were merchant ships produced during WW II. On average 3 of these finished production each day The average time to build them was 42 days nationally, and 2 weeks at Kaiser shipyards. The fastest Liberty ship build was the Robert E. Peary in 4 days, 15 hours, and 29 minutes as a publicity stunt. This was built at Kaiser's Richmond shipyard.
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