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Terminal Island Naval Shipyard

Long Beach Naval Shipyard (LBNYS) was once known as Terminal Island Shipyard because of its position on Terminal Island between the towns of Long Beach and San Pedro in California. The shipyard was assembled as a Moreell Dry Dock facility and work on vessels commenced on April 7, 1940. Following the accentuated new construction years of World War II, when the yard came to closure, the yard was to be rented to Bethlehem Steel Company. However, the US Navy assigned the yard be transferred into a US Naval Dry Dock: Roosevelt Base, California. The yard converted its name to Terminal Island Naval Shipyard in November 1945 and later to LBNSY in March 1948. On June 1, 1950, the shipyard fell under dormant duty, but was later being reactivated, after the Korean War, in January 1951. The yard then provided fleet support in the Southern California area and implemented mainly overhaul and preservation of non-nuclear surface ships for the US Navy, until its closure in 1997. Terminal Island Naval Yard was originally known as a mudflat and later as Rattlesnake Island, but since 1918, it has officially known as Terminal Island. The island has a landmass of 11.56 km² and at one time had a population of 1,467. The island housed hundreds of first and second-generation Japanese prior to World War II. After the ambush on Pearl Harbor, the FBI incarcerated the adult males and the remaining inhabitants were obligated to evacuate their homes within 48 hours. The subsequent enactment of Executive Order 9066 sent all West Coast Japanese and Japanese-American nationals to internment camps. The entire village was destroyed to the ground.

Terminal Island Naval Shipyard has allocated top-notch technological assistance for many scientific activities including Poseidon, Polaris, and Sealab. The shipyard has also partaken in advanced industrial agendas such as the Occupational Safety and Health Program. Long Beach Naval Shipyard participated with national, state, and county exercises to eliminate pollution and to restrict harmful industrial hazards. The yard assembled up-to-date programs, equipping the Navy with the largest organic depot that entailed distinct repairable rework facilities for electronic systems. The shipyard also included a 386-ton floating crane, a landmark of the yard that was captured in 1945 by the Allies from Germany, which is one of the largest self-propelled floating cranes in the world, reaching a height of 374 feet. With this premier equipment, the yard was able to perform multiple ship-related tasks: nuclear and non-nuclear structural, boiler, sheet metal, rigging, ordinance, electronics, electrical, sandblasting, machining, welding, woodworking, painting, pipe fitting, and much more. Prior to closing, Terminal Naval Shipyard recruited approximately 4,300 employees and payroll was $182.4 million annually. Several employees came from the Long Beach-Los Angeles-San Pedro area, with others recruited from other Southern California counties.

Terminal Naval shipyard was also involved in shipbuilding and repairs prior to the 1980’s, with copious use of asbestos products. Many California citizens from various counties were affected by the asbestos used in this shipyard. Today those residents are being diagnosed with asbestos-related diseases. While performing a number of tasks, employees were not made aware of their exposure to the dangerous material. Those who have been exposed to dangerous asbestos fibers include boilermakers, insulators, plumbers, pipe fitters, ironworkers, and electricians. This failure to communicate the dangers resulted in rapidly increasing levels of asbestos conditions. Workers were rarely issued facemasks, gloves, or other protective gear. Asbestos litigation triggered much of public action against the material during the years of 1988 to 1991, as asbestos cases constituted the majority of all product liability cases. The monetary awards in each case have been substantial and almost three times the amount has been given to the asbestos victims. Asbestos cases are the most stringently regulated dangers, with prices per case of cancer of approximately $100 million.

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