[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Responsibility2nd. I recall reading that the manufacturing process ended with the paint job, which was applied aboard moving trains as the finished boats headed for the Atlantic ports for shipping overseas.

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[Hieronymus]

Most other countries are so small that that wouldn’t give the paint time to dry—and in the ones that aren’t that small, the paint would tend to freeze for much of the year.