Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-05-26 | Page 39 | Speed Records at Pacific Shipyards

AT PACIFIC SHIPYARDS By thy United Press SA SAN FRANCISCO CISCO May Ia 25 Pacific Pacific coast shipbuilders may double their original allotment of ot tons of new shipping in 1918 From Puget Sound to San Diego practically every harbor is building ships of or some sort at top speed and nearly a dozen new yards will be in operation before the end of or the tho year The Skinner Edd Eddy corporation Seattle which launched tho the first ship for or the Emergency Fleet corporation established a worlds world's record for quick construction of a steel hull The Co Co- lumbia Shipbuilding Shipbuilding- corporation Port Port- land and land broke that record a few weeks later aler by hy dropping an ton steel freighter into the water just Cl days das after the tho keel leeel was laid Tho The Seattle comp comply compy girded its loins and launched a hull only 55 days clays after aCter the laying or of u the hull and turned tho completed freighter reighter over to tho government in 71 days lays from the beginning of conS con con- S tru Standard specifications freighters of or the he and HOO ton t type hpe pe are under construction in Iii Oakland Alameda and anti San Francisco Many have been launched and several completed Exact Ex Ex- act net figures are arc held as a war secret but nit two of the worlds world's largest shipbuilding ship ship- building companies the companies the Union Iron Ironworks Ironworks works orles and the tho Moore Scott company com corn compan pan pany arc are operating at full blast on ou nav navy lavy contracts as well as government freighters Seattle's wooden and steel shipyards launch aunch nn an average of two ships a week I In n 1918 they will launch a minimum o of GO 30 steel and 50 wooden vessels In Inthe Inthe the lie week of ot March 26 four ton steel steamers were launched At Tacoma three Ferris typo type wooden steamers and one ton steel freighter ha have hac c been completed and 20 more vessels will be he launched within the next four months At Portland and Astoria and along the tho Columbia and Willamette rivers in Oregon 67 ships were launched durin during dur dur- in ing the 12 months ending April 1 I HIlS 1915 The Thc Oregon districts district's record for or that period netted tons tons nearly nearly halt half haltof of ot the entire Pacific coasts coast's 1918 1915 a al nl A 3 ton wooden steamer was launched at Portland 49 days das after aCter the keel was laid At Alameda da the tIle Union Construction compa company has lias started work on a new shipbuilding plant to construct 10 freighters of or tho ton HOOton type for fot- the government