The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-01-30

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New York company's Year.
The New York shipbuilding Company
turned out approximately the seme
amount Of merchant tonnage as the
Newport News Company, 35,204 tons.
Some of the important vessels deliver.
cd bv this company were the Congress,
for freight and passengers, Of 1885
gross tons and 1000 horsepower, for the
| Pacific Coast Steamship Company; the
lffVef steaniboat Washington Irving, for
the Hudson River Day Eine, Of 1904
gross tons, e000 horsepower; two bulk
oil steamships for the Standard Oil
Company, each Of 1908 gross tonnage
and 1900 horsepower, and a collier Of
1891 gross tons for the Coestwise Steam.
ship Company.
Other vessels built by the New York
bodybuilding Company were the freight
steamship Tyler, for the Old Dominion
line, Of 1929 gross tons and 1850 horse
power and the ferryboat Santa Clara, Of
1000 gross tons, for the Southern Paci-
&c Company. Besides these vessels eight
ear floats ranging from 500 to 10l5
gross tons each were delivered 10 vari-
Gus railroads.
A large amount Of naval construction
| is now in hand at both the Newport
News and the New York Shipbuilding
| companies yards. At the former are
the battleships Texas, of 26,250 tons,
and Pennsylvania, of 3l,400 tons. At
the latter are the battleship Oklahoma,
| $500 tons, and four destroyers of 1000
tons each, besides the collier Hampden,
Of 4727 tons; the Argentine tattleship
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cruiser Eel Hung, Of 260O tons.
Maryland steel company's Work.
The Maryland steel Company, which
comes next on the list in the volume of
merchants tonnage completed in 1913,
25, 793 tons, delivered three freight
steamships for the American Hawaiian
steamship Company, of IA ,495 tons dis.
placement and 1000 horsepower each.
Two other vessels were the City of An
napolis and City of Richmond, for the
chesapeake Steamship Company. Three
other freight steamships for the Ameri.
can Hawaiian Steamship Company are
at present under construction, and the
company delivered one naval collier, the
Jason, of $500 tons displacement and
1000 horsepower.
| Other large shipbuilding companies
which delivered great amount OF
1 work, both naval and merchant, are
4 William Cramp & Sons, Of Philadelphiai
the Harlan q Hollingsworth Corpora.
ton, of Wilmington, the Fore River
ShipbuiIding Corporation, the Staten
Island Shipbuilding Company and tn,
Bath IronsWorls. tiAs siieb,
q The American merchant marine oh
the Great Lakes was increased during
the last year by. three large passenger
steamships, the See and Bee, NORTH
American and Noronie. OF cargo yes
for the bulk freight trade. The Ameri
can Shipbuilding Company produced
the greatest amount Of tonnage on tn,
Great lakes, 57,769 tons, which is alsC
the greatest amount Of merchant ton
mage produced by any shipbuilding com
pRny in the United States. The SCI
and Bee and Noronic were built by thil
firm, which also constructed four siste
ships Of the bulk freight type for thu
Pittsburg Steamship Company. Anoth
or freight steamship was the Alton 0
Dustin, for the Franklin Steamship
Company.
The next largest producer on tn,
Great Lakes was the Great Lakes Engi
ncering Works, with 9S8S tons. Sew
eral passenger and cargo vessels wer
constructed by this company.
The principal yards on the Pacif
Coast devoted great part Of their en-
ergies during the last year to govern
ment work. The Union Iron Works de
livered two submarines. For the mer
! chant trade several oil carrying vessel
we're constructed.
The production ut the Seattle Con
struction and Dry Dock Company
yard was varied, including two subma
rines, one for the United States, tn
other for Chilli Nine steel coal barge
and a suction dredge were government
orders. The Tacoma, passenger steam
ship for the Inland Navigation Com
pany, was one of the principal merchan
vessels constructed there.
Some idea OF the great possibilitie
of an American merchant marine, pro
, tected and aided by sensible legislation
can be obtained from this continue
the Engineering Magazine. ''Loca
, traffic on the sea coasts and inland wa
, terwayg represents an investment O
5000, 900, 900. The investment IN shin
. yards represents $l50,0O0,O00. Wer
the existing vessels, owned by Ameri
J cans but at present flying foreign flags
! to be added, without any additions
building, the American merchant ma
/. rine would represent in round figures
an investment of 5000 900, 900. Ana i
! Is safe to say that q billion dolla
Ahefiean merchant marine soon wouI,
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