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Show RECORD MADE IN SHIPBUILDING WASHINGTON. April 18 A new record for merchant shipbuilding was! announced today In the content between be-tween yards for pre-eminence in turning turn-ing out such vessels The Skinner and Eddy Shipbuilding company of Seattle has delivered to the shipping board the S800-ton freighter Ossinoke in ir9 day from the time the keel was laid, 81 days ahead of the date stt in the contract. In pre-Waf times, twelve to eighteen; months were required for the delivery Ot such a craft. The best previous j record for completion of a large vessel ves-sel was 130 days made by the Colum-bla Colum-bla River Shipbuilding company of Washington state in building the 8800-ton 8800-ton Canoga. |