Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-10-14
Government Ship Yards Find
Work Dragging on New
Battle Ships
YARDS ARE NOT WELL EQUIPPED
Congress Has Not Kept Government
Machinery up.to -Date-steel Deliv-
cry Has Been Delayed and Strikes
Have Interfered to Retard Work on
Many Ships.

/ of the naval bureau OF construction, II
his annual report to the secretary OF the
/ navy. All the larger vessels, he says
+ have been delayed by non-delivery OF
!. structural steel. while the vessels bulld-
ing at San Francisco Were set back 10y
the ten months strike, and the hoidoul
of the workmen at Seattle prevented
any actual progress on the structure OF
the hull of the battleship Nebraska
building there. The delay IN the oeils
cries Of arlnor for the pit'.iesii'p'
Maine. Missouri and Ohio and the mon
i+ors Arkansas, FLORIDA, Nevada anu
wyoming has retarded The complexion
of those vessels concurrently with other
causes.
The inability of shipbuilders to Obtain
a sufficient force of skilled workers iiiso
has been, in many cases. an llnpoIldh'
factor in the slow progress OF the YES
sells.
However, Admiral Bowles points ous
that this has not been entirely with evil
effect, as it had enabled the bureau TO
est discoveries here and abroad, when
will add much to the efficiency OF .he
vessels when finally atioat. The term
--latest discoveries can be best appfe-
ciated when it is stated that the battle-
ship Ohio was twenty-nlne months pc
hind her contract on July laSl' the
battleship Missouri over twenty-five
months behind. the majority of the bait
tleships and cruisers are over ten
months behind, and some of the TORPEDO
boats are more than forty months be-
hind the date of completion stipulated
in their contracts.
Admiral Bowles says there continues
20 be an urgent necessity for an in
crease in the number Of officers of the
construction corps. The principal navy
yards, it is stated. have an insufficient
number of officers for the performance
of regular duties. This lack of officers
is particularly hurtful just now in view
of the construction of the big battle
ship Connecticut at the New York navy
yard.
The report says the advantages of
special instruction in naval architect
ure and marine engineering in the
year.
In contrast with the foreign technical
schools to which students have been
previously assigned, and the limited OPP
portunities for practical work and OBJ
servation of actual construction which
the position of the students as foreign
ers naturally subject them TO. the bu-
reau of construction is now enabled, by
cooperation with the faculty of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
to regulate the technical education APP
zpropriately and to offer the students
end their instructors constant opportu-
mites for observation Of the building
and repair of all classes Of vessels, both
at private shipyards and at the navy
yards of the government.
Admiral BoWles points out that the
policy Of congress for some years past
has been against the construction OF
new vessels in the navy yards and as. Il
result the development and improve
ment of the yards have not been gener-
ment for ship building.
The admiral is of the opinion that II
should be the policy Of the navy depart
ment so to arrange the navy yard plants
that they will be efficient for ship builds
ing which is in reality, he says, one of
the most important functions they may
be required 20 perform.
An interesting portion of the report is
that in regard to the work of the ex-
detrimental model basin, in which min
iature warships are tried, and 1T is
stated that the basin has proven OF
great value to the construction bureau.
1T is wholly to the basin facilities that
the bureau has been enabled to arrive
at the very satisfactory results that the
new armOred cruisers OF the Tennes-
see class, displacement i4,5OO tons may
be expected to make speed of twenty
two knots with actually somewhat less
power than the preceding lot of arm
ored cruisers of the Pennsylvania class
of the same speed, which displaced 49,
$50 tons.
Thus an increase OF Z per cent in sizs
In the case of the battleships and OF
over per cent in size in the case of the
arnOred cruisers has been accomplished
With an actual reduction of horse pow
er necessary to drive them at a given
speed in each case
The shipbuilders of the country have
continued to avail themselves of the
Facilities of the model basin in connec-
ton with their commercial work.
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