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A one-page Manville internal memo of July 29, 1983, from Barbara Diemer to Manville's legal staff, attaching advertisements for J-M marine products from Pacific Marine Review (March 1940 to May 1941) and Marine Engineering and Shipping Review (1945), and ads and an article on three West Coast J-M distributors and contractors in shipbuilding: Bay Cities Asbestos Company, Marine Engineering and Supply Company and Western Asbestos Company. The material came from documents found in 1980 by one of Clark Burnham's researchers. The twelve enclosed pages show J-M "Marine Materials" ads for Marinite bulkheads, J-M Marine Sheathing, BX insulation, 85% Magnesia and Superex pipe covering, used on ships such as the S.S. America and the S.S. Mormacpenn.
- Author
- Barbara Diemer
- Sent to
- D. H. Markusson; R. D. Batson; R. L. Wilson; H. L. Marsh; J. K. Green; H. K. Jarvis; R. A. Orr; Don Wingerter; Anita Christen
- Published by
- Manville
- Date
- July 29, 1983
- Number
- Bates SHIP 2071–2195 (not consecutive)
- Library no.
- ACL Doc 24439 · asbestosclaims.law/library/24439
- Rights
- Republished under fair use for research and historical study.
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What it shows
The ads sold Marinite to shipbuilders as fireproof because it was asbestos: a May 1940 ad lists "CANNOT CORRODE . . . basically asbestos" among its selling points, and says that since 1936 more than 3.5 million square feet of Marinite and Marine Sheathing had gone into ships. A March 1940 ad counts 92 commercial vessels built since 1936 with J-M marine materials, and a May 1941 ad says that "virtually every passenger ship, cargo vessel and tanker built in this country" in the past five years had them. The 1945 distributor pages describe Bay Cities Asbestos and Western Asbestos as insulation contractors for J-M in San Francisco Bay shipyards.
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Page 11, a 1945 Pacific Marine Review article on Bay Cities Asbestos (a third-party publication), is left out.
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“Barbara Diemer Memo Enclosing J-M Marine Advertisements from the 1940s.” July 29, 1983. Bates SHIP 2071–2195 (not consecutive). Manville. AsbestosClaims.Law Library, ACL Doc 24439. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/24439.
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