During the three and a half years that the yard was operational, it produced 277 ships,[1] including a destroyer escort delivered in 23 days.

[3] Within weeks of the attack on Pearl Harbor, a survey team arrived in Hingham and crews worked around the clock to clear 150 acres of land.

After the land was cleared, a steel mill stretching a third of a mile was erected, and wooden cradles that would hold each ship were built.

[4] Facing a lack of skilled labor, 400 shipbuilders were brought in to train a workforce that totaled 15,000 within a year.

[2] Around this time, orders in the yard shifted from destroyer escorts to Landing Ship Tank craft, which were first delivered in 1944.