Documents in our library describe Shipshape (Raybestos—Manhattan) as “shipboard insulation, lagging”.1
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What each document says
Every statement about Shipshape (Raybestos—Manhattan) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two
- Description: “shipboard insulation, lagging” (as of 1965), p. 1091
Kind of product
We list Shipshape (Raybestos—Manhattan) with cloth, tape and other textiles, from how the documents describe it. That page explains how such products exposed workers.
Trades that worked with products like it: Insulators and Insulation Workers.
Cloth, tape and other textiles by other makers (301)
Min-k (Johns-Manville) · Pyrotex (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Thermobestos pipe covering · Novabestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Sal-mo (Nicolet) · S (Herbert A. Greene) · S-1565,9S-4680L (Anchor Packing) · Safecote (Amatex) · Safety Wahlert Products (Wahlert Products) · Sal-Mo (Sall Mountain) · Sea-Ro The Universal Packing (Chester M. Roe) · Sealsafe (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Silvabestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) · So Good That Only The Dealers Sell It (Lehon) · Sofilia (Asahi Kasei Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha) · Soundgard (H. K. Porter) · Soundgard (Southern Asbestos Co.) · Spauldite (Spaulding Fibre) · Speed-Lag-Cloth (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Speedlag (Raybestos-Manhattan) · and 281 more: all cloth, tape and other textiles
See also
- Raybestos—Manhattan: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
References
- Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 109. Not yet published in our library.
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