Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1903-01-04
SOME sHIPByILDiNG FIGURES.
Interesting Statistics From sewpor'
Ecyy.-C. & O. officials In Town.


NEWPORT NEWS. VA, January B.
fsrec:al. ia. G. Hunter. surveyor to
I9ovd's register Of British and foreign
shipping, to-day gave out his annual re-
port on sllip-building in the district OF
Newport News. which embraces the snip
yards here, al Richmond. and at Bal
more. The vessels actually under con-
stTuction on the ways January ISL, assie-
gate i0T. 800 tons.
During the year the tonnage launched
at the three cities was SOB which was
rather small. owing TO the fact That the
ship-yard here put overheard only one
ship, the Old Dominion liner Monroe, OF
$500 tons.
The William Il. Trigg Shipbuildirg
C7p,nnsnv launched the Old Dominion
steamer Berkley, the United States reve-
nue. cutter Mohawk. and the railroad tug
Lancaster, aggregating 900 tons Tho
Maryland Steel Company. al SparroW's
Point, launched the steamship fremont,
OF $500 tons
The tonnage under construction Jan-
,lar. list w;s divided as follows: New
port News. 70 600; Tfieg, 1900: Maryland
Steel, 900
In the tonnage accredited to the yard
here. the battleship Louisiana is not IN
Guided because her keel has not peen
laid Her displacement will be 6,evo tons.
Surveyor Hunter gives the folloWins
state OF progress on the vessels bui'oans
at Triggs:
Cruiser Galveston. ready for launching,
revenue cutter Mohawk. launched and
fitting out; steel suction dredse. framing
and plating; Standard OH steamship.
framing and plating. PENNSYLVANIA rail-
way tugs Bristol and Chester, framing
and plating.
Mr. Hunter refers 10 the fire which oc-
Cured at the Sparrows Point yard Octo-
ipp of q Sff1 ton steam
ships caught fire on the ways The ways
and staging Were burned. and after three
quarters of an hour the big ship took
list to port of about eight degrees. Inc
Vessel has been frightened. and the yard
IS, busy cutting away the damaged plates.
Some 800 steel plates and several n way
OF the double bottom had to be removed.
c. AND Q. OFFICIALS IN TOWN.
President George w. Stevens,
General Manager C. E. Doyle. General
Freight-Agent Hotchkiss. and Engineers
Scarborough, and Cabell. of the Chesa-
yeake and Ohio railroad. returned to
Richmond this evening after day spent
in the city inspecting the railway ter
nlinals. the site OF the proposed subway
under the railroad yard, the ship-yard.
and making a general tour OF the city.
The party was met by Mayor Moss.
eneral-Superintendent Post OF the ship
yard Terminal-Superinten Il T.
Parker, and General Ma ster =.
Ford. OF the Chesapeake and Ohio. Pres
ident stevens said that work may begin
soon on the proposed car shops. but no
thing had been definitely determined be-
you'd the fact that the shops VIII pe
built He was highly gratified at the
splendid coal and general business OF the
Chesapeake and onio. as he arrived mere
on CAV when nine ocean steamships
End about the same number OF coal ships
were loading at the piers. and the harbor
YES ran OF shipping. He commented on
the fact that he cav British ship un-
loading for Cincinnati a cargo OF pig
iron from Europe and that a LOT OF Amer
tcan pig iron was being sent from here
- Europa.