Show U. U S1 S. SNIP SHIP PROGRAM IS PER CENT CENTI I i COMPLETED COMPETE I Board Gives Senate Commerce Commerce Com Com- II merce Committee Statistics Statistics Statis Statis- I tics on Work to Dec 1 I By Associated Press Preas nm WASHINGTON nt's ts t's shipbuilding Dec Dee 24 The The governments government's gov gov- on I I D December ber 1 1 w was s S. 1 iS per r. e-r. cent e tn on n it Us its way to completion a as disclosed today in an analysis of ot statistics supplied d by bythe bythe bythe the shipping board boan to the senate commerce commerce com corn merce committee 1 Investigating progress of ot the work ork The program calling f for r tons of ot shipping is divided as follows Wood composite vessels of ot 1551 tons 10 per cent completed required required required re re- re- re steel ships of tons i 39 per cent completed contract steel ships of tons 4 per cent I completed t tf I The percentage of ot completion as all given does not take Into account the construction of ot new shipyards in which many of or the vessels will be built or work done tou toward rd obtaining engines boilers boners and other equipment Of Ot wood hulls contracted for tor keels have been laid for of which iso were laid down In yards which did not exist when the contracts were let The wooden hulls were ordered from 72 yards ards of ot which 51 61 have been built from the ground up since the contracts were let The percentage of ot completion of ot wooden hulls huns figuring on th the entire program which included hulls on which construction has not started Is 9 C per percent cent Of el fifty eight ht composite ships for which contracts were let keels have been laid for 12 These 12 on December December Decem Decem- ber her 1 were 20 per cent completed The contracts went to four shipyards three of which did not exist when the tho contracts eon con tracts were WE're made Three yards ards virtually virtually virtually virtu virtu- ally have been completed and they will begin construction of at ships within a afew afew afew few weeks Eleven keels for steel ships have been laid In new yards Contracts were wert let Itt for tor steel ships to two thirty-two yards of which twenty are arc new The Tho Th percentage pe of ot completion of the tho steel program 4 program 4 per cent does cent doea not include the construction construction con con- of ot the new yards Of Ot the tho ships contracted for four have been launched two steel and add two to wood |