The sun., 1918-04-18
1SSHIPS, NEW:
YARD ORDERED
Government Programme for
Steel and Wooden Vessels
Thus Completed.
SCHWAB on JOB TO-DAY
Construction Records Arc Be.
ing Broken Under Speed
Up Orders.
SCHWAB on JOB TO-DAY


WAsHISGroS. April l'.---With Charles
NJ. Schwab about to assume active con-
troll ard direction OF all ship constyuc-
tion in the United States the Emergency
Fleet Corporation let a contract to-day
to the Carolina Shipbuiiding Company
for the construction OF the fourth big
Government steel shipbuilding yard and
eighteen large steel steamships. This
contract completes tho Government
building programme Tor steel and
Mr.. Schwab Will officially take hold
OF the construction end of the shipping
programme tomorrow morning. lie will
be in charge OF yard construction as
we'll as Of ship construction and will
supervise this rev plant. TO be located
at Wilmington, y. c. as well as the
Hog Island project.
Tho new Director-Gcreral spent the
day in New York attending to persona
affairs and those Of the Bethlehem
Steel Company. lie will pass to-mor-
Fleet Corpo ration.
Pies tn Award Contracts.
TIE law prohibiting an official from
letting contracts in which ne has direct
or indirect interest will no. aYect his
work. All con,rac citing will be done by
Vics-president Piez In addition 1t was
pointed out that with the signing OF the
contract to-day American yards, except
for projected concrete plants, are
signed UP FOR work To carry them fof
upward OF three years, Il, least up 10
1920.
The Carolina Shlpbuiiding Company
is n subsidiary e! the George \. Fuller
Constructing Company. The new plant
that il vii. Construct - to have siS
ship ways. Contracts Cor eighteen stee'
sl.ips OF ths Sherwood Fabricated type
were ie. VITA the contract Cor the yard
constvuc. ION. Each vesse! viii h, $500
tons. the standard size.
The Ishcrwood type OF steamship was
developed by the United States Stee'
Corporation. The Emergency Fleet Cor
porat ton asked to use the plans and
specihca tions. Offering TO pay for the!;
use in the Government yard. President
Hurley received them to-day with 4
note from James A. Farrell president
Of the steel Corporation, turning then
over to the Government with his ,oin
piments. This type of vessel Ia The
simplest Of tine fabricated designs and
many OF the plates and parts are inter
changeable.
POst-bellum Prepare lions.
Changes in the design OF a Number oi
the larger steel vessels to make then
available after the war for passenger
service is under considerable
Shipbuilding records are being broker
one after another as the America,
yards ara being speeded up. The Skin
rer Eddy Co, Seattle, has just de
livered the standard fre.ghter Ossinek,
10 the Shipping Boarh. 109 days after
the keel was laid. The same COMPANY
some time ago established a record witt
the frelshter Seattle. which slid into
! the. water 81 days after the heel wa'
laid. It was l37 days. however, be
fore the vessel was completed an,
turned over.
The record for fast construction wa!
Temporarily taken by the Columbis
River Company OF Washington OF
March 23 when II delivered the freighte
CanoEa iiS days after the keel wal
laid.
In pre-war times It took between {
year and eighteen months to turn out {
vessel Of the size OF any of these--S.S0|
tons.