Inside the Baltimore shipyard that produced hundreds of WWII vessels at incredible speed

Workers gather to watch a launching ceremony.Image: Library of CongressIn 1941, the United States Maritime Commission ordered the establishment of emergency shipyards to build cargo ships for the U.S. and Britain that could be assembled as cheaply and rapidly as possible to replace losses from German torpedoes.The Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard on Baltimore Harbor was established in February and quickly set 27,000 employees to work building these new “Liberty ships."Each Liberty ship was des