Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-11-11 | Page 6 | More Ships

MORE SHIPS. American shipbuilding is gaining in momentum month by mouth and world's records continue to be smashed. The following announcement has just been made at the offices of the Bethlehem Beth-lehem Shipbuilding corporation: Only two months ago the Bethlehem yards set a new high mark In ship con-fa con-fa true t ion when they completed and delivered de-livered to the owners nineteen' vessels In thirty days. Now on tup of ihat achievement achieve-ment . the newfl of w hleh w;ih received with astonisnmcnt In foreign shipbuilding shipbuild-ing circles, comes the news that the Fore Hiver plant n t Quincy. Ma.s,, hns just lowered tho world's n-or.nl by finishing and turning; over tn owners fifty-three veeeelfl, in nine monlliK just pajrAedLi Shipbuilding Ship-building experts here cuumented on the achievement of the Va nkec ynrd. saying that the record was remarkahle an tho work of construct fun waH done on but twenty building ftltpt. This makes an average of more than tWO vcsscIh per slip or better than a Hhlp OOmpleted within four months. Such a rate of oontM ruc-t ruc-t Ion Is taken to mean here tha t nothing can Htnp t he onward inarch of a in erica toward maritime supremacy. Other ship-ym'la ship-ym'la with more than twice as mnny building slips as Pore Hiver hkve turned nut almost as many fs.'ls in the same time as the New Kngland plant has just completed, but fifty-three :ihips In nine months built on twenty slips i." more than a hundred per cent better than any achievement of any of the Bethlehem yard's i ivals. Sonte of the other cnuntties are nlsn ninkmz rapid progress in rehabilitating their merchant marine and soon there will be no lack of ocean carriers upon the high as. The ( nited HJatca occupies oc-cupies a commanding posit ion at the present time and if all goes well vrn shall ut least hold our own in tho coining coin-ing era of romp"f H ion. (lernn uy is completely out of the rare at the atart, flrrat Urilain and .In pan u ill Dfl our most formidable" rivals, white the Norwegians, Nor-wegians, Dutch and firooUs may bo ex-peeled ex-peeled to keep many veeeclf afloat, Tho most cheering fact is thai we are vr-tain vr-tain lo get at IcnaJ a portion of the ocean-carrying t radof whereas before tlm war we were at tho mercy of foreign for-eign ship owners. ft