The Fisherman's Quonset Hut Traditional Cache
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The Fisherman's Quonset Hut
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Great cache for those of you that like to fish, and a bit of
history. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Quonset hut is a
lightweight prefabricated structure of corrugated steel having a
semicircular cross section. The design was based on the Nissen hut
developed by the British during World War I. The name comes from
their site of first manufacture, Quonset Point, at the Davisville
Naval Construction Battalion Center in Davisville (a village
located within the town of North Kingstown, Rhode Island). In 1941
the United States Navy needed an all-purpose, lightweight building
that could be shipped anywhere and assembled without skilled labor.
The George A. Fuller construction company was selected to
manufacture them. The first was produced within 60 days of contract
award. The original design was a 16 by 36 ft (5 by 11 m) structure
framed with steel members with an 8 ft (2.4 m) radius. The sides
were corrugated steel sheets. The two ends were covered with
plywood, which had doors and windows. The interior was insulated
and had pressed wood lining and a wood floor. The building could be
placed on concrete, on pilings, or directly on the ground with a
wood floor. The most common design created a standard size of 20 by
48 ft (6 by 15 m) with 10 ft (3 m) radius, allowing 720 square feet
(67 m²) of usable floor space, with optional four-foot overhangs at
each end for protection of entrances from the weather. Other sizes
were developed, including 20 by 40 ft (6 by 12 m) and 40 by 100 ft
(12 by 30 m) warehouse models. The flexible interior space was
open, allowing for use as barracks, latrines, offices, medical and
dental offices, isolation wards, housing, and bakeries. Between
150,000-170,000 Quonset huts were manufactured during WWII. After
the war, the U.S. military sold the surplus Quonset huts to the
public for $1,000 each. Many are still standing throughout the
United States, primarily used for commercial buildings (especially
Army surplus stores). Many were also used for temporary postwar
housing, such as Rodger Young Village in Los Angeles, California
and Michigan State University's Quonset Village in East Lansing,
Michigan.[1]
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