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Show PROGRESS OF STEEL SHIPPING IS TOLD Seventeen Ships of 120,700 Tons Put in Service in February; January Total Is Doubled. WASHINGTON, March 9. Progress of the steel shipbuilding campaign was made public tonight by the shipping board in figures of deliveries and launching, which showed a steady upward up-ward trend since the first of the year. In February seventeen vessels of 120, 00 tons were completed and put into service. The total was nearlv twice that of January admittedly a I bad month, when only nine vessels with ! a tonnage of 79,541 were delivered. , March deliveries at the present rate are ; expected to reach twenty-three vessels ot 188,275 tons'. Launchings have more than kept pace with deliveries, sixteen ships of 11"-500 11"-500 tons having been put overboard in ! January, and fifteen of 77,900 tons! were launched inn February. During I March it is expected that ' thirtv-five ' vessels with a tonnage cf 220,591 will be sent down the ways. i Of the vessels completed in Febni- j ary, fifteen were cargo carriers one I was a tanker and one a collier ' The ' March schedule calls for the delivery I of fourteen cargo vessels, seven tank"- i ers and two colliers. |