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Savannah Machine & Foundry

shipbuilding company

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 6, 2025
Entity authorityQ20715061 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Savannah Machine & Foundry Company was an American shipbuilder in Savannah, Georgia, founded in 1912. Walter Lee Mingledorf was the founder of the company. It was sold in 1968 to Aegis Corporation.

It built a series of Auk-class and Admirable-class minesweepers for the U.S. Navy and salvage ships.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Savannah Machine & Foundry” as shipbuilding company. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Savannah, Machine and Foundry.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1912, 1968—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Savannah, Machine and Foundry providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Savannah Machine & Foundry”, the useful work is to connect “shipbuilding company” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 6, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q20715061. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1912 and 1968.

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This entry incorporates text from “Savannah Machine & Foundry” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.