Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1912-02-24
SHIPPING PORTS
OF The WORLD
Twenty Vessels Now Ordered Built.

awarded contracts To. English snip
building companies for the construc-
ton of twenty modern ocean going
steamers, which will represent 1S0,15O
tons net register, according to ad-
vices Just received by a Portland
shipping concern. The steamers must
be completed and ready for delivery
in 1912. The business Is the most en-
tensive in the shipbuilding line report
ed in the last year. During the same
month other Norwegian owners pur-
chased three steamers.
The craft to he turned out in Eng
land range In size from $500 to 12,OGO
tons capacity. Locally, the unprece-
dcnted activity Is taken to mean that
the descendants of the old Morse nav
igators are making preparations for
placing regular lines In service
around the world on the completion of
the Panama Canal With one excep-
tion the steamers are to be built for
companies located In towns of Norway
that have not figured much In a mari
time way heretofore. Moreover, II Is
given out that many more similar con-
tracts will be let by the same firms IN
1913.
The Norwegian firms contracting for
the building of the steamers and the
ports at which they are located, are
as follows: =. o. Gron, Sandefjord,
two steamers, 1000 tons each: one
of 435OO tons. one Of 5000 tons and
one of 5000 tons; they total $3.50
tons.
A. +. Klavenas & Co. Sandcfiord,
one steamer 1000 tons, one 1900
tons and one $500 tons; total, $4,000
tons.
J. l.. Mowinchel, Bergen, two
steamers of 1000 tons, which are
rush jobs and will be delivered long
before the expiration of the year.
Brunsgaard, Kjosterud 4 Co., OF
Drammen, two steamers of $500 tons
each and three of 5000 tons apiece;
total, 1000 tons.
Hans Kim Co. of Drammen. one
steamer of 1900 tons. one steamer Of
biU' tDllS anu Dllt Sltu1lltI vi lfVN
tons; total, 21.3OO tons.
NJ. l.. Peterson, of Tonsberg, one
steamer of 5000 tons. Fearnley d
Eyer, Tonsberg. two steamers of 5000
tons each; total, 5000. Besides two
steamers are under construction for
the NorwegianAmerican Line, each of
,, 10000 tons net register. Carrying
passengers and freight they will oper-
ate between Norway and New York,
and later their route Is expected to be
extended to the Pacific Coast
~
| A steamship company with two
| through services to eastern ports from
/ Southern California and from the
north is planned by the Hawaiian
American Steamship Company. This
new venture of the great maritime
concern has been In embryo for some
months. and the first partial coniirma-
ton of the report came in dispatches
from Washington, d. c., recently
| President Dearborn of the Hawaiian
company In testifying before the
| House Canal Commission gave an ink
| ling of what was in view, but he fail
ed to mention that in tapping South
crn California line of refrigerator
ships Is contemplated which will han
die much of the citrus fruit from all
the districts In and about Los Angeles
and Riverside.
/ mi al tn1I hf
committee on canal affairs that his
company was making arrangements tC
| take apart many steamers controlled
by the concern and now operating on
the Great Lakes and ship them to At
lantic ports. He said that orders had
been placed for new ships and that
the construction work would go OF
rapidly from date.
! President Dearborn added that he
expected the canal to be completed
earlier than was contemplated ant
that emergency work was necessary Il
bring the Hawaiian American fleet III
to the standard. The rush of bust
ness through the canal would be enor'
nous. he said.
Indirectly, 1t was learned some
days ago that the two lines to be op
Grated by the big corporation would
ply between Port Los Angeles and thu
east and San Francisco, Portland
Ore, and Seattle to the east. Three
of the newly ordered vessels are re
frigerator ships of the latest type an
can carry immense cargoes Of citru
fruit with assurance of an even TEN
perature for the shipments. Their
have been lengthy voyages made b!
refrigerator ships with citrus frui
shipments and the goods have Away
arrived in pink of condition.
The Los Angeles and San Francisco
lines will be separate, direct routes
and Portland and Seattle will hav
equally as good service, only Portlan
will be a port of call unless shipment
-, justify exclusive vessels for that city
All of the vessels will, under the Uni