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6 ��� MARCH 2013 ��� WORLD FENCE NEWS Your ���SUCCESS��� is our ���GOAL��� HIGH SPEED BARBED WIRE MACHINE CHAIN LINK FENCING MACHINE REVERSE TWIST BARBED WIRE MACHINE RAZOR BARBED TAPE WIRE MACHINE HEXAGONAL NETTING MACHINE Prudential Industries, Inc. TEL: +1-768-899-8752 7368 NW 5th St., Plantation, FL 33317 E-MAIL: cormay@prudentialindustries.com www.prudentialindustries.com TEL: +1-310-325-9000 FAX: +1-310-325-9008 E-MAIL: info@prudentialindustries.com We Engineer Our Equipment to Meet Your Specification! SPREAD THE (WORLD FENCE) NEWS! Tell your friends, employees and business associates that they can now read World Fence News and The Fencer���s Almanac in a fully interactive format online. And there is no charge! Visit www.worldfencenews.com (click on the picture of the current issue) It is a tragic fact that in the early days of World War II, United States merchant ships were being sunk by German U-boats almost faster than they could be built, and the country���s substantial merchant fleet was being rapidly depleted. America���s answer to this great challenge was the Liberty ship. In 18 emergency shipyards, 2,710 mass-produced, identical freighters were built in record time to carry the cargo and troops needed to win the war. Today, only two ships survive from the great Liberty fleet. One of them is the S.S. John W. Brown, berthed in Baltimore and operated exclusively by an unpaid all volunteer crew. Many contributing members are former WWII Liberty ship sailors, including fence industry pioneer and proud military veteran Bob Long, chairman of Long Fence. (Long Fence is a wellknown Capitol Heights, Md.-based family fence company serving the mid-Atlantic region since 1945.) The John W. Brown is a fully operational ocean-going museum ship and memorial. Every year, besides visiting other ports and opening up for guided tours, there are three 6-hour trips on the Chesapeake Bay featuring live band music of the 40s with actors impersonating Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Gen. Douglas MacArthur and others. There are also flybys of vintage WWII aircraft with ship gunners manning the guns to defend the ship during the trips. The S.S. John Brown recently celebrated its 70th birthday. Seventy years is a long time for an oceangoing ship to survive PHOTO COURTESY WWW.PROJECTLIBERTYSHIP.COM >> RAZOR TAPE PRODUCING LINE >> P.V.C. EXTRUSION PRODUCTION LINE >> HEXAGONAL NETTING MACHINE >> WIRE DRAWING LINE >> EXPANDED METAL MACHINE >> REVERSE TWIST BARBED WIRE MACHINE Proud WWII veteran helps preserve history by working to keep surviving Liberty ship afloat Top, Bob Long is proud of the role that Liberty ships such as the S.S. John W. Brown played in America���s winning war effort, and of his service aboard the fleet. Above, an artist���s rendering of the Brown underway, as an American F4F Wildcat fighter helps defend it against Japanese attackers. To learn more about this historic ship and the Liberty fleet, and for information on supporting Project Liberty Ship, whose purpose is to preserve and maintain the vessel, visit www.projectlibertyship.com. ��� especially one in operating condition, and maintenance needs are extensive. When Long learned of some critical maintenance the ship needed to remain operational, he quickly volunteered the materials and manpower to get the job done. It turns out that the armor around the ship���s four gun tubs was disintegrating, which could cause material to break loose and fall from the gun tub shield. Long enlisted the expertise of Ray Shifflet, general manager of fence manufacturing firm Iron World, of which Long is a partner, in selecting the materials and performing the installation needed to encase the gun tubs, while not detracting from the ship���s historic appearance. It was decided to use 1��� x 1��� 11 gauge high tensile fabric, which was powder coated ���battleship gray��� in Iron World���s plant to match the ship���s color. According to Long, worker safety was of the highest importance because continued on page 9