Show i I FIRST FABRICATED SHIP IS 15 LAUNCHED Agawam Is Name Given to Steel Vessel by Wife of President d By Associated Press WASHINGTON ASHINGTON V May 29 Launch Launch Launching ing tomorrow from tho the yards ards of the Submarine Boat company at Newark bay of tho first of the new standardized standard standard- standardized fabricated steel vessels for cargo c carrying being built by the Emergency Emergency Emergency Emer Emer- gency Fleet corporation was announced announced announced an an- today by the shipping board The taking to the water of the ne new vessel which will bear the tha name Agawam meaning Great Salt Meadows Meadows Meadows Mead Mead- selected by Mrs Woodrow Wilson Wilson Wil Wil- son will be an Important step in the program of the shipping board The new vessel built at yards which have havo been constructed in the thelast thelast thelast last few months will have a deadweight deadweIght deadweight dead dead- weight carrying capacity of tons The Agawam has a length of feet f et a beam of 46 feet and tests are expected to show an average speed of ten and one-half one knots an hour Fuel oil will be used to generate steam to drive a turbine operating revolutions a minute The rho oil will be carried in compartments of the double bottom of the ship insufficient in insufficient sufficient quantity for tor more than around around a around round trip to Europe Approximately twenty seven seven steel mills six fifty-six fabricating plants and foundries and equipment shops were drawn upon to construct the ship The various steel parts of the vessels vessel's hull and superstructure were fabricated as completely as practicable practicable practicable able in structural steel shops throughout through through- out the country and then were as assembled assembled assembled as- as at the Newark bay shipyard into a complete vessel This plan shipping officials say has resulted in economy and speed of production heretofore thought Impossible The Tho program of the submarine corporation corporation corporation cor cor- as outlined by the Emergency Emergency Emergency Emer Emer- gency Fleet Fl et corporation of which it with the Hog Island plant is a part I calls for vessels of the size and type of the Agawam It is expected tho the others of the class will be constructed constructed constructed con con- conI I in even shorter time than was the one to leave the ways tomor tomor- row Twenty-eight Twenty s have been completed at the Newark bay plant for the building of the new type of vessels |