The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-09-14
BRITISH YARDS
ARE DELIVERING
SHIPS WHOLESALE
Great Plants on English Riv-
ers Making Many Bottoms
at Yards.

GLASGOW, Aug. 3o.-(Mail)-On
the hull OF big ship being built in one
OF the many yards that line the river
banks Of Scotland and northwest Eng.
land, a workman has written with
chalk in bold letters six feet high five
words that express the determination
of British shipbuilders to do their
bit" toward defeating the German sub
. marines.
The five words are these: I'VE Win
. Deliver the Ships"
A staff correspondent of The AS.
ISOLATED Press has just completed a
trip through the principalyards OF the
Rivers Tees. Tyne. Wear and Clyde as
the guest Of the foreign office and the
admiralty. The purpose of the journey
was to permit the gathering OF infor.
, nation regarding Great Britain's IF.
forts which could be transmitted to
the people OF the United States.
Are Being Delivered.
Great Britain not only will deliver;
they are being delivered now-dozens
of them, scores OF them. even hundreds
of them. or the four principal ship
available foot Of adjoining land has
ship more or less completed over II
Nearby engine works are turning out
motive power for the vessels at ire
mendous rate. Ship builders OF var
ious sorts--men, women. boys. girls
all are working at top speed to beat
the Germans.
The rivers are overhung with smoke;
blast furnaces are glowing every.
where; streaks OF red 60 back and
forth in the rolling mills and through
It all on these busy rivers there Is
roar OF automatic riveters. the clash OF
sledges on steel plates and the throb-
bling OF ponderous machines that punch
holes In plates an inch thick which at
times truly Is deafening. So great is
this noise at many places on the banks
Of the Clyde that to talk 1t is necessary
to place mouth to ear.
Ships Are "Mysteries."
Just now the builders OF ships are
rushing through work on countless de-
stroyers, cruisers, other naval ships
that must remain for the present as
mysteries" They too. are working
at a tremendous rate completing mer-
chant ships, OF which there appear to
be hundreds Some are large and
some are small. Some are being built
for private ownership, some for the
government.
Especially fast work is being done
on the marchant ships as the govern.
ment and the builders are anxious to
increase British tonnage by building
standard vessels, Of which many are
even now under construction many
having been launched.
These standard ships, builders
agree. will greatly enlarge the output
II tonnage In the first place, II was
pointed out. construction has been sim.
plified. all parts Of hulls and engines
are standardized and may be used
where first needed.
Heretofore. for instance IS sizes OF
steel sections were used In the con-
struction OF ordinary ships. The stand
ards, as they are called, have been
named after flowers. the word war pre-
ceding the name of the flower, such
as "war rose" "war thistle" "war
POPPY" But for the name it would be
impossible to tell that they are stand
ards.
Look Like Others.
They look just like the ordinary
cargo carrying vessel: not so much su.
perstructure and wide decks upon
which heavy load may be carried.
Their engines are powerful enough to
drive them through the seas at rate
slightly over that Of the ordinary cargo
carrier. And they AL will b- we'll
armed when they set out to bring nv
terials and supplies to the British
Isles from foreign countries.
1t is quite possible that within the
next few months every port III the
United States will have sseen one or
more Of these standards. for some OF
them already are in the water and
making ready to perform the duties
that have been cut out for them.
The Germans during the early days
Of the war tried their best to destroy
the yards OF the Tees and the Tyne
and the Wear. In one shop behind a
mass Of roaring machinery there Is 4
hig brass plate. which was placed there
by the company In honor Of more than,
a score OF employees who gave up their
lives on the spot when Zeppelin
bomb crashed through the roof and ex-
ploded
On any river. they will point out to
the visitor where bombs from the Yep
nelins have dropped before the British
did away with the menace at least in
that section of the country. The
IeDpelins don't even try to reach the
wards any more. II would be suicide
for them to make the attempt.
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