The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-10
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1 Corps officers will be ordered ashore and
assigned to new posts. Mai George c.
Reid L. s. NJ. C, division officer OF the
/ fiTst division of the fleet will be as
signed to command the target range at
1 Winthrop. Nd. relieving Mai. Roy A.
I Magill. L. S. NJ. c. Capt Nelson p.
Noulte will be relieved by Capt James
Huey' l. 5. NJ c, at Portsmouth Bar
racks. First Lieut.. Philip II. Torrev will
he detached from New York and ASSIGNED
TO duty Of instructor at Marine Ofcers'
| School at Norfolk.
In answering the House Committee or
Naval Affairs as to the capacity Of pri.
Nate yards TO build warships the ship
builders state that the matter Of sesIIr.
Ing a sufficient supply Of skilled labor
was q greater problem TO deal with in in.
Creasing the capacity than the enlarge,
ment Of their facilities Newport News
| ship Company set forth that the CUES.
ton Of increasing the output Of the
yards was matter of months while
that Of securing skilled workmen and
the organization Of their forces would
/ reCSIire years.
! The Bethlehem company, which owns
| -four large shipyards, offered to convert
all of its plants into navy yards and with
the cooperation of the NAVY Densrt.
U
/ ships ut rate that would soon make
the United States the strongest naval
/ power in the world
| Its representative recognized that the
concern owed its first duty TO the coun-
try and would willingly put aside all pri-
waite contracts.
The Newport News Company. in the
course of its statement to the commit
| tee stated that within six months a
] a
60 and $50 feet long. In eight months Il
could lay down a battle cruiser. one
scout cruiser, one or two destroyers
| Disregarding its private contracts the
company could in the same time Law
! down two bsttIeships or one battIesbir
and one battle cruiser. In this program
Is included two scout cruisers and two
destroYers. In ten months the capacity
/ or the yard could be inCrea sed to three
| battleshtps or battle cruisers or six scout
/ cruisers
The Bethlehem Company stated that Il
owns the Union Iron Works. San Fran
cisco; the Fore River Ship Building Cor
poration, Quincy, Mass: the Harlan &
HollinEsworth Corporation, Wilmington.
! Del: the Maryland Steel Company. Spar-
rows Point, Md. with a total Of twenty
| six building ways. These concerns. II is
! stated, could deliver two battleshins in
/ thirty-eight months four scout cruisers
in thirtY-two months. eight destroyers in
! tWenty-four months, ten auxiliary YES
sells in twenty-four months The sub
marine capacity OF the plants is prac-
| tically unlimited. It could easily build
! twenty-four submarines Of the smaller
! type in sixteen months. II war was i'm
minent the program above could he
! doubled. battleship. with the CO.
! operation Of the Navy Department, could
he completed at the Bethlehem works in
/ twenty-four months
! William Camp & Sons ship and Engine
/ Company stated that its material and
! labor would be fully employed until
/ April 1877. If it disregarded its private
1 contracts the concern could within six
! months lay down two battleships. one
| hattle-cruiser. two scout cruisers and
| four dostroyers. The company has no
room for enlargement. In laying aside
1 private contracts it would be ready to
I undertake the following program: One
hattlCshin April, 1917; one battIeship,
June. 1917; On" battle-cruiser. April 1911;
! one scout cruiser. April 1877; one scou:
cruiser, August. 1917: one destroyer, Oc-
tober, 1916; two destroyers. June. 1917,
and one destroyer, September, 1917.