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Show 34 SUBMARINES Government to Build Other U-Boats Under License by Certain Patentees. WASHINGTON, April 11. Spociflc bids for thirty-four sea-going submarines subma-rines of the 800 ton typo woro received at the navy department today in response re-sponse to advertisements asking for proposals on thirty-eight such craft. In addition to tho formal bids the department proposals that the government govern-ment Itself construct submarines under un-der license by tho holder of the nat- ents and rights used. The Electric Boat company proposed propos-ed to build eighteen submarines in from sixteen to twenty-six months and at a price of $1,624,000 for each vessel ves-sel constructed on tho Atlantic coast and $1,592,000 for each constructed on the Pacific coast, Tho limit of cost set by congress for the submarines apparently excludos those proposals, as It Is $1,300,000. Tho company proposed as an alternative alter-native to construct the submarines on a cost plus 15 per cent profit basis. Tho California Shipbuilding company compa-ny of Long Beach, Cal., and the Lake Torpedo Boat company of Bridgeport, Conn., proposed tq build from four to eight submarines each in from twenty-four to thirty-two months at prices ranging from $1,288,000 to $1,299,000, depending upon design. The cost plus percentage of profit plan also was pro-j pro-j posed by the companies as an alternative alterna-tive and the Lake company offered to liconse tho government to construct on its plans for $100 per not ton submerged sub-merged displacement. Snyder & Co., a French concern, with offices in Now York, proposed to liconse the government to build under its 'plans at a rato of $G5,000 for tho first boat and $45,000 for each succeeding suc-ceeding vessel, or to license the government gov-ernment to build oil engines under Its plan for submarine UBe at $35,000 for the first engine and $25,000 for each ! succeeding engine built. |