The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1916-02-14
SH|PY ARDS BUSY
WITH new ORDERS
America Sees TenfOId Increase
In Eighteen Months.
OLD PLANTS ARE REOPENED
Tonnage of 1851. Now Being Con-
structed. Greater Than That of Any
Previous Yea-Al Of the Factories
Have Work Ahead That viii Keep
Them Busy For Months.

Shipbuilding plants i'll the United
States are working 10 their full ca
pacity. but can increase their output
from l. TO % per cent within Il year
according TO replies received by the
New York chamLcr of commerce from
thirty or more yards.
Already the tonnage under order or
construction il double the aggregate
tonnage for amy year within the last
ten.
The inquiry was made of the ship
building companies in view of the eff
forts now being made 10 enlarge the
mercantile marine under American reg
iStry. According 10 one Of the most
prominent shipbuilders the amount of
ocean going merchant tonnage now
building III the United States for Amer
lean registry naS increased tenfold
since July |. 1914
increase Since July.
Since July of the past year
there has been marked increase in
the construction activities in most of
the large plants in all the leading ship
building districts of the United States"
says the statement issued by the cham
Der of commerce. Al one of the lead
ing New England plants they have
construction capacity OF the value of
S10,0OO.OG0 IA year and work on hand
for fifteen months from Dec l.
"Of this amount 30 per cent is gov
eminent work, the other 30 per cent
! being merchant tonnage This firm
-.
/ sion if demands justified it Another
i typical New England plant with ca
/ pacity of $l.50o.000 Of output year
! has twelve months work on its books
Another New England industry is en-
/ gagged wholly in engine building for
submarines
''ln the Delaware and Chesapeake sec
lions orders are large Fully hundred
/ craft of various kinds including lar
ger proportion of ocean going vessels
than usual. are being constructed in
this group of yards On the Delaware
| eighty-two vessels were being built
with an aggregate of 3S3,O0O tons. val
ued at S5S.0tD.0OO and employing not
less than 20.(sO men
"A single plant there. whose mer.
chant shipping capacity i'll recent years
ranged from 10000 TO $1,000 tons, re
ports its c;llllcity now rs l12OOO dead
weight tons per year
This pialst is capable OF turning out
sixteen vessels of 1000 tons each pei
year and on Nov "A had orders on
hand for two years.
Another company, with capacity
/of $4,000 tons. is booked up for eight
4 cen months. working entirely on mer
chant ships. y company iii this dis
trict which on July | had but one shil
Struction or ordered.
The capacity of the country to pro
duce merchant shipping has been III
creased, by the reopening of some o
the oldeg plants.
'AccordiQB to information supplied
by the secretary of commerce, the ton
mage contracted for up TO Dec. ! aggre
gates 761.511 gross, tons Of this ton
mage thirteen ships are Of 10000 ton
or more. twenty are from 1000 to 10
600 tons thirty-Six from 5000 TO 100
tons. ten from 1000 to 5000 tons an
nineteen from 5000 to 1000 OF tn
ninety vessels fifty two were cor
tracted for since July l. The total tor
mage, 761.51l. is greater than was eve
built in the shipyards of the Unite
States in any single calendar year