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Originally Posted by Ed Storey
Perhaps the steel came from one of the mills situated in California.
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That's entirely possible.
When I was rebuilding the little C8 CMP truck years ago, I found a ink stamp on the cab sheet metal. The stamp read something like 'USS steel Illinois'
Interesting that some of the Park ships were coal burners, even by 1940 standards, this was considered to be obsolete technology.
The SS Taronga Park launching
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1AdXEgxmoI