The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1918-05-09
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Steel Collier Tuckahoe is Launched
90 Per Cent. Completed.

for rapid construction of ship were
broken today when the 5,549-ton
steel collier Tuckahoe was launched
at the yards of the New York Ship
Building Corporation in Camden, N.
J. The keel of this wonder ship was
laid on April 9Th and only twenty
seven working days were required to
prepare the hull for launching. The
boat was 80 per cent completed when
it slid into the waters of the Dela-
ware. In fifteen days more it will be
ready for cargo.
A distinguished company witnessed
the launching, including Charles NJ.
Schwab, director general of ship con-
struction; Chairman Edward n. Hur-
ley, of the shipping board; Vice
President Charles Piez, Francis T.
Bowls, and Senator Fletcher, chair
man of the Senate commerce commit
tee. Miss Helen Hurley, Chairman
Hurley's twelve-year-old daughter,
christened the ship.
Letter From President.
Mr.. Hurley read a letter from
President Wilson as follows:
''To the Workmen and Executive
Staff of the New York Ship Build
mig Company
"My Dear Friends: I want to con-
gratulate you on the extraordinary
record you have made in your work
on the steamship Tuckahoe. I wish I
could be present in person to express
to you the feeling that have that we
are all comrades in great enterprise,
and that you have played your part
with extraordinary skill and devotion,
eliciting not only my admiration, but
I am sure, the admiration of all who
will learn of what you have accom-
plished. I congratulate and bid you
God-speed.
"Cordially and sincerely yours.
"Woodrow Wilson,"
Mr.. Hurley read a copy of cable
gram he had sent to Gen. Pershing,
which read:
Worlds Record Set.
Management and workmen of New
York Shipbuilding Company have just
established world record by launch
! ing a steel ship of $500 deadweight
tons in twenty-seven days. The army
of $4,000 men in the American ship
yards thus show that they are work
ing shoulder to shoulder with their
comrades in the trenches. The patri-
otic spirit shown by the workmen of
this company exists in every shipyard
| in America
Mr.. Hurley announced that each
man who worked on the Tuckhahoe
would be presented with silver
medal as mark of distinguished SER
vice.
Mr.. Schwab was cheered repeatedly
by the thousands Of workmen. He
declared in an address that the rec
! ord-breaking work on the Tuckahoe
is the most decisive blow administer
ed to our enemy in many months.
''The news will fly around the
world" he said. "That in twenty
seven working days a ship had been
built in Aemrica, something never
before accomplished, and it will be
news for Germany. Washington de-
sires no credit for this accomplish
mert, the credit belongs to the work
men in this yard and shall be the
first to see that they get it. Boys,
in going in the magnificent shipbuild-
ing plants in the Philadelphia dis
trict, I have been struck with the
energy, loyalty, enthusiasm and pa
triotism of the workmen No better
men exist anywhere in the world
than those in the United States. Go
to it and see that the seas are filled
with American ships. See that your
hearts are filled with patriotism and
say to b with the Kaiser every
time you drive a rivet.'
Mr.. Piez said that if every yard in
the country does as we'll as the New
York shipyard the country will turn
out $500 such this year. ''Three
times as many as the submarines can
sink"
Standing with his arms around the
shoulders of Tommy" Mason, hull
superintendent, who built the ship
Mr. Schwab presented that official
with a gold watch as a token of ap-
probation.
Mason promised the patriotic co,
operation of every workman in the
yard.
| Within a short time after the