Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-12-14 | Page 35 | Huge Additions to American Shipping

HUGE ADDITIONS TO AMERICAN SHIPPING WASHINGTON, Dec. 13. At tho end of this year the twelve-month ship construction con-struction program of the shipping board will net six million dead weight tons, Chairman Payne said today. Vessels under active construction on December 2, the chairman Baid, numbered num-bered 2314, keels for 2240 of which had been laid with a deadweight tonnage ton-nage of 3 2,926.48(3. Of the total number num-ber of ships included in the board's entire construction program, 1010, with a deadweight tonnage of 10,494,047, had been launched on December 2, and 1074 actually had been delivered to the shipping board, making a total deadweight tonnage of 9,189,236 up to December 2. "Tho majority of our ships are good and are performing excellent service," tho chairman stated. "Class for class they compare favorably with tho ships of foreign nations."