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Show Amerieae Shipyards Build 1,357 Ships h Past Em fflosiths WASHINGTON, Oct. 4. One hundred hun-dred sea -going vessels, forty-six steel and fifty-four -wood, aggregating 301,-433 301,-433 gross tons, were compjeted in American Am-erican shipyards during September and officially numbered by the bureau of navigation. In addition seventy non-sea-going vessels of 70,703 gross tons were built during the same period. There is a great tonnage than was built in the whole fiscal year of 1915. During tho nine months ended September Sep-tember 30 the total of sea -going and non-sea-going vessels was 1357 of 1,722,730 gross tons. |