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number five goes

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by TBHC @ 9:21 am

65 years ago…

March 1, 1941 – The 459-foot freighter The Rainbow is launched at the yards of the Tampa Shipbuilding Company, the fifth vessel produced as part of Tampa’s contribution to the national defense effort.

Courtesy of the Tampa Bay History Center.

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