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Show ACTIVITIES CEASE ATJOG ISLAND Great American Shipbuild ing Plant Now Idle PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 11. Shipbuilding Ship-building activity st Hog Island, the world's largest shipyard, has ceased. With the delivery of the steamship I Aixne to the army transport service after the vessel's trial trips during I the latter part of January, not a ship ' remains to be completed at the great plant. Hog Inland, during the three years of lis exlstance, has been one of the chief factors in placing America in the front ranks of maritime powers. Created as a wartime emergency, I more than 3. 000 men and women were employed there at the peak of' its operalions. The first keel was laid February IS. 11, and sine then 122 vessels of a touil of j,710 deadweight tons, more than one.tenth of the shipping board emergency fleet corporation's tonnsge of contract steel ships built at nil the shipyards in the United States, have been turned out. The tirnriurtinn record of the Hoc Island yards reached Its height In the one-year period from April 18, 191. to April 17, 128. when seventy-nine seventy-nine ships were launched and seventy-j seventy-j four delivered, an average of one ship launched every twenty-eight working I hours and one delivered every thirty working hours. The rsrgo-carrying records of Hog. Inland vessels include the carrying of 3.(13,1194 long tons of American products prod-ucts to all important ports of th. world. To do this, the Hog Island ships have steamed 3.775. 435 nautical miles, equivalent to 157 trips around the world. It is declared that they have functioned perfectly on all voyages. voy-ages. During the course of their travels over ' the seven seas, these vessels have engeeed In nineteen rescues of craft disabled in heavy storms: the lives of 702 members of disabled crafts' crews hsv. been ssved, and ships worth tll.00o.000 have been brought safely Into port by th. steam-, era from Hoc Island. . i |