Guests Attend Barge Launching at Misener Industries Shipyard, BD

Creator

• George Skip Gandy IV

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Creation Date

3-20-1976

Abstract

Guests attending the launching of a newly constructed barge from the Misener Industries shipyard located at 5353 West Tyson Avenue in Tampa, Florida. The barge was named in honor of former Misener vice president James L. Brown Jr. after he died from a plane crash the year prior.

Alt Text

Four individuals stand on a metal platform that is being lifted above the deck of a ship by a nearby industrial crane. One of the occupants, a man in a cowboy hat, looks directly at the camera as the platform ascends.

Keywords

Shipbuilding industry, Shipyards, Special events

Subject: geographic

Hillsborough County (Fla.); Tampa (Fla.)

Physical Collection

Gandy commercial and aerial photography collection

Box

31

Digital Date

2024

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Identifier

Gandy 31_1088

Creative Commons

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License

Recommended Citation

Gandy, George Skip IV, "Guests Attend Barge Launching at Misener Industries Shipyard, BD" (1976). Gandy Photographs - Commercial. Image 12147.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/gandy_commercial/12147