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How the U.S. Turned One Liberty Ship Into 5 Million Tons — And Some Time Later, U-Boats

From a single prototype to an ocean of steel. This episode traces how America’s emergency shipbuilding program scaled the humble Liberty ship into millions of tons of cargo—through prefab sections, around-the-clock yards, and welders learning on the fly—and how that tidal wave flipped the Battle of the Atlantic, starving the wolfpacks and rewriting U-boat fate. What you’ll see The recipe: standard hull, welded seams, prefab modules, 24/7 shifts Kaiser magic: yard layout, parallel slipways, record-breaking launches Fixing the flaws: brittle fractures, crack arrestors, better steels & weld discipline Logistics math: convoy cadence, cargo per sailing, “tons delivered vs. tons sunk” Turning the tide: escorts, radar/HF-DF/Ultra, Hedgehog—why U-boats started dying faster than ships Victory ships & what came next Chapters 00:00 Cold open — one keel becomes an assembly line 02:18 Why standardization beat craftsmanship in a crisis 06:05 Prefab & welding: from shop floor to slipway 10:40 Quality scares: cracks, fixes, and lessons learned 14:55 Scaling output: the 5-million-ton milestone explained 18:30 Convoy engine: scheduling, escorts, and survivability 22:10 U-boats vs. tonnage: the curve that broke the wolfpacks 26:05 Aftermath & legacy: Victory ships, postwar fleets, industrial DNA Hashtags #WWII #LibertyShip #Shipbuilding #KaiserYards #BattleOfTheAtlantic #Logistics #Convoys #Uboats #MaritimeHistory #Welding #VictoryShip #IndustrialHistory