The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-08-19
American Shipbuilding Company
to Erect Plant for Fabri-
eating Steel.
MEANS MUCH FOR THIS CITY
This Will Give Four Additional
Launchways, Which Means
the Company Build Eight
Ships at Once.

Announcement has been made by
the American Shipbuilding company
of their purchase, from the South
ern Pine company, of the water front
OF the latter company between Lon
don and Prince streets. With it
comes the announcement that the
American Shipbuilding company will
build plant for fabricating steel for
building steel ships, and that the?
will build four additional launchways,
which, with the four erected on their
original holdings, the Whaley prop
krty, will give them total of eight
ways, on which ships will be under
construction at one time, The four
vessels which the company first in
tended to build in a plant to be erect
ed by them in Savannah will be built
in Brunswick, and they have decided
Savannah, but to consolidate in one
big plant in this city, believing that
the advantages Brunswick enjoys for
shipbuilding and the fact that it has
taken the lead of all ports south of
Newport News in construction of YES
sells and erection of new plants,
make it necessary for them to put
their entire works in Brunswick.
This news will be especially graft
flying to Brunswick people, as it
means that the plant will be perma-
nent, and it is stated unequivocally
by the officials of the company that
it is to be permanent Steel ship
building will begin as quickly as the
necessary shops and machinery can
be erected and secured. 1t takes time
and costs small fortunes these days
to secure some kinds of machines for
steel working, but the officers of the
American Shipbuilding company have
planned to secure full equipment as
quickly as may be done under exist
ing conditions.
1t will also be gratifying to the
people of the city to see the old
Southern Pine dock property improv-
ed. Abandoned by the company as
a dock several years ago, when they
closed their lumber shipping business
in Brunswick after the decline in lum
ber production had begun in this ter
ritory, it has slowly rotted down un
til now it presents an unsightly, if
not disgraceful appearance, only a
few planks remaining on piling half
of which have rotted out The same
condition obtained at the Whaley
property until the American Ship
building company bought it and built
launchways and shop buildings on it..
The American Shipbuilding COM
pany, organized by the Brown Bros.
and their associates only few
months ago, has made very rapid
progress in the construction of their
plant, and, without doubt, will pro-
ceed as rapidly to develop the newly
acquired property. Their original pur-
chase for a site, the old Whaley prop
erty, has a frontage on East River
Of 45O feet. The company has a
lease to the foot of Prince street,
which Is 80 feet wide. The Southern
Pine dock property has frontage on
East River of $50 feet, and the COM
pany has acquired a lease to the foot
OF London street, which gives them
As feet additional frontage, or a total
frontage of 1,035 feet, room enough
to build great shipbuilding plant,
which is exactly what they will do,
according to the statement made yes.
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