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DOUGLAS C. MacMILLAN
DOUGLAS C. MacMILLAN
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John DeMaio, New Providence, New Jersey
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In 1951 he was elected president of the company and in 1969 he became chair of the board. During his years at Sharp he played a major role in quite a few first-of-a-kind designs, including the following: • The first nuclear-powered merchant ship, the NS Savannah, for the Maritime Administration, US Department of Commerce, constructed by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation.
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In all of these Doug MacMillan was very innovative and played a major role in the conceptual, preliminary, and contract designs. He was also prominently involved in the Massive Emergency Ship Construction Program during World War II, during which more than 600 ships were built to Sharp's plans -- more than 400 Victory merchant ships and numerous Naval auxiliaries, including 50 CVE escort aircraft carriers, the "baby flattops" of Pacific fame.
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He was on the board of directors of the Atomic Industrial Forum and a member of the advisory committees of the US Navy and the US Coast Guard. His son Douglas, remembering his father, wrote: After retiring he embarked on a mission to do extensive research on his family genealogy.
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