Naval Academy; Spanish-American War; graduate course in naval architecture, Paris, 1899-1901; naval construction specialist, 1901-33: launching problems, development of plastic ship bottom paint, submarine rescue chamber; Army Industrial College, 1933; administrative officer, Bureau of Ships, and later for Secretary of Navy, World War II; Munitions Board; Maritime Commission; allocation of strategi c materials, laying up surplus vessels, disposal of shipyards. Accounts of Theodore Roosevelt, Charles Edison, Frank Knox, and Admirals William Sims, Henry Taylor, Samuel Robinsn, and Emory Land.
Naval architects; Naval architecture; World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American; Spanish-American War, 1898; Williams, Henry, 1877-1973; United States. Navy; United States. Maritime Commission
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
1963
Physical Description
251 pages
Note (Biographical)
Naval officer.
Note
Interviewed by John T. Mason, Jr. on July 29, August 13, August 26, and September 23, 1963.