Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-11-25
GREAT LAKES YARDS
BUILD OCEAN BOATS
Have Already Sent fSI Steamers to
Atlantic Scaboard, Some
Cut In Two.
WORLDS RECORD ESTABLISHED
Vessel Launched in Seventeen Days.
Majority of Ships Are Small Cargo
Carriers That Are Said to BE Very
Profitable to Operate.
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"ASHlNGTON. November 23-Sh!p-
yards on the inland seas nave sem 10
inc Atlantic large armada Of cargo
vessels since the beginning OF the war.
tHcrepE. materially aiding the work q ;
IcG I ,iiramsporiation: f. Lake Superior.
Lake Huron. Lake Erie all We'd with
eacn otncr IN being the first to send
thclr veteran ships. which had piled IN
lake waters. and then to send new oues
the emergency OF war
IN the Great Lakes we have been
o ouon ,, good ships big ships. and
world declared Chairman Edward IA.
Hurley. OF the United States Shipping
Board. August last
me spirit of Comn,puorc Perry. he
who had established The first record
Tor rapid sh;pbuilding on the lake
Ma, MIN the workers.. The result Is
ent t3nIted A Stats: ~ :; when the pres
gan It's work and up to November l.
NE Great Lakes have sent a ieet OF
gfesstns e 5iiss, 70 ias ssas1ard ag
The significance OF this total viii be
better understood when it is stated
mat ms exceeds by far the entire out.
, Hsa.sS i9r any one of the. four prewar
years deliveries from all American
snIp!ards IN 1915 amounted 10 thirty
eight vessels. aggregatlng oS5.55.tons.
l6e,54o deadweight tons; 1919 ni5et tes
W weishs' ,a agsreg sl l3s.5ss dead
vessels of lo0.354 deadweisht tons
This figure applies TO all vessels over
l:oop deadweight tons In addition 10
INC isi vessels turned over 70 The board
since august, 1917. there has been other
construction on the lakes.
CRAWL KEYS LAUNCHED
IL SEVENTEEN DAYS
ono OF the remarkable pcrforma nces
i IN 81 hlpouiIdinS on the Great Lakes, and
was that OF the building of the Crawl
Keys This vessel. a 3.5O0-ton freight
er' was launched seventeen days after
NE keel was laid and delivered com
Iicte TO the Shipping Board on August
- 1873. and started for the Atlantic
rms vessel came from the yards of the
treat i, Lake. Engineering Works. At
other records made by the shipyards
on me lakes include that OF the con-
ssruction o: the Lake Narka. a 1880
ton fre!ghter. By the American Ship
building Company. at Cleveland yard,
in eighty-four days. The Corsicana :,
S 80 steel ship was launched by
at Manitowoc. Wis. in twenty-eiEht
calendar days. The Lake DevaL a
S.3Vo-ton cargo boat was also launched
by me american Shipbuilding Company
at us plant at Lorain. Ohio, in TWEEN
iy-four days from the time the keel
was laid.
Before the wa: and before the board
took charge of sh.pbuilding. from six
months 10 year would have been
considered satisfactory time for the
sonstruti:on or the LAKE fre.ghters
which have row gone to sen
It Uas Great Lakes shipyard tina.
'uEnen over the hrst vessel to the Ship
p; siS-, Hoard; this Zinc the Limoges.
bu:l, tor the societie Maritimes Of
France. by tho Toledo ShipbuildinE
Company. the vessel Being turned over.
to the board on August 80. 1917.
inc yards are spread over the lakes.
being located a, Buffalo. Chicago
CieNeland. l-orain. Ashtabula and To.
leo Ohio; Detroit. Port Huron. t:corse.
rerior. Hani,owoc. Green Bay and
Sturgeon Bay. Wis. and Duluth. MINI.
when the shipping Board was
formed there were fourteen shipyards
Now there are twcnty-one yards with
10 ways and fifteen ways building.
THIRTY-ONE THOUSAND
PERSONS EMPLOYED
According to the latest figures there
were l:0Oe employees IN the twenty
one yards on the lakes. there being no
figures available as TO tho number when
the board took charge.
me hrSt suhsiaptial contributions 10
The seas from the lakes was twenty one
steamers, of total lightweight ton
rass OF ,r6n; $50 oo6 tons These vessels
tons. and some of them had to be cut m
two to ge, them through the locks OF
the Sault Ste. Marie and tho WeIIand
Canals 10 the ST Lawrence River. But
the feat was accomplished. and before
they touched the deep they were nut to
Work with carEoes out of Montreal
The vessels were among the first com.
Wandered by the United States Shin
ping Board, and nineteen OF them are
sun plying the seas, Those we're fol-
lowed by the new boats which up to
November l. number l60 or 53i, 535
lightweight tons.
This feet Of leo new steel cargo car.
riers in made up of a distinct type OF
boat II is the -Norwe gian type. known
AS the Frederksiad, a small simEle-
deck treiShter. about $50 feet long.
forty-font beam. and with Il minimum,
small cargo steamers. originally used
FOR lumber: the decks. fore and AFT.
being constructed for the purpose. The
hold Will also accommodate tons o.
cargo.
Before the war some of them used
10 come over to this side o the water
and engage in the West InG:es sugar
trade, but the great bulk OF them oper.
ated IN the Baltic. carrying coal and
lumber. Comparatively small handy
anywhere on the seven seas and invade
waters where the large tramps do not