Show I GREAT LAKES WIN FIRST IN SHIPBUILDING Outstrip All O Others lers in Number Number- of Vessels r Completed Washington May fa 3 First First honors In Inthe Inthe the time building building- of or ships during the war was a awarded t day by the shipping board to tho the Ninth or Great t Lages dis die Held b by canal restrictions to a lighter type of vessel t than bait lan was built bunt bunton on tho the seaboard 1 tho the district did not produce so many net not tons a aJ other sections sections sec see but outstripped all other districts districts districts dis dis- In the number of or ships In one year it put into service 12 more vessels roe ves sels eels than were d delivered from all American yards yards' In tho year before beor the tim United States entered catered tho the war At the tho outbreak k of oC war Great Lakes yards which had developed a highly efficient t typo type i of or cargo carrier were at work on 10 bottoms ns for foreign n ac ac- ac- ac count All were vere requisitioned by b- the shipping board boud and the first ship turned over oyer to the board under its war program was the Limoges a ton 2930 freighter tel built bull tat at Toledo Twenty ty- ty seven se ships ero finished finished an and put to tosea tosea tosea sea before the time canals froze In 1917 orl J h Winter Inter While winter gripped tho ho lakes al es new vork was continued an and tho the existing elsling fleet oven eyen old boats which had been laid up were overhauled 1 Summer saw e eer every er craft worked an and o overworked is never before l keeping ceJ s h tho ho stream of oC grain iron ore coal and amid manufactures moving mo toward the east cast for shipment to tho the men mon In Europe At AI Atthe Atthe the the opening of or navigation twenty ships slipped from irom tho the ways WaS anti and work vork was as carried forward at increased speed In ln November a a. total of or twenty- twenty eight ships nearly ships nearly one a t day was day was put into service it by y Great Lakes yards ar The total of or 1918 Ins was wa 3 new freight carriers all nil of oC them steel except on one Tho Time smallest yard ard the on lakes having only three was Mays ays delivered thirteen ships and finished a a. fourteenth only a n little late for delivery before the Ice closed navigation Between tho the end of DC November and anti the tIme end of March larch six more moro were launched All were 1200 ton boats Unlit Built In Rl SI Day Days One yard rd built buill a ton n ship In four eighty days Another launched u a 34 ton ton O-ton hull in tw twenty eight days das a a. record which was as clipped to twenty- twenty four days by Ly another plant soon after aCter I corll stood but a little while fur ur UH er yard launched 1 a a. ton ship in seventeen So days ays after tho the thon rin n of ot the tIme lc keel heel I and delivered It com com- ll to fourteen days duys later n ion of tf tho the yards ards to meet the theia's TS s v iT dl demands s gave bave tho the lakes a total o of 1 12 berths 79 for Cargo ships and ana 33 for fr r tu tugs While hUe tho the average a total number num num- her ber of rivet gang Gan in the time Great Lakes Lukes district is only lo 10 per cent of tho the naion's nations nation's nations nation's na na- na- na tion's ions total the they point proudly to a n record of or delivering dp 30 20 per cent of Dr the country's total ship tonnage More Additional contracts for ships of t OO tons tOilS each have c been placed in the time dJ district since time tho last requisitioned chip was wan finished in October th tho program pro pro- gram grain to bo be completed by the close of or navigation allon this tills yea year Since th tho signing sign sign- In ing of the lie armistice ton tonn of ot shipping have been heen delivered 1 Orders alto alro have boon been placed place in the time district for tor twenty five steel eLect g sea going ln tugs g. g thirteen wood seagoing two l 1 harbor Jor tU tugs lugs H and antI thirty nine harbor tu tug tugs e. e Completion of or the bull building program a to officials will give th th- dl district a record of ot Hi 4 cargo cargo- ship ship- and i 79 5 t 1 tugs delivered to th thud tho government gov sov- tho the largest number of or ships ami the time largest built In Jn an any district |