Among the latest bidders for the yard is the third Polish shipyard, Gdynia, which wants Gdansk for its steel-working capacity.

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In August, the executive awarded a contract to build three vessels for the executive to a Polish yard claiming that European competition laws prevented them from giving "preferential treatment" to a Scottish shipyard.

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In his filing with the UNR trust, he claimed he handled "Unibestos insulation" at the San Francisco Naval Shipyard at a time when he said he was a rifleman who merely passed through the yard to board a troopship.

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