The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-03-27
FACTS ON
.SHIPBUILDING
ARE PRESENTED.
BY fHECHAIRMAN.
Hurley Says Country Will
Soon Have 80 WAYS
Turning Out Ships
PROGRAM NOW 3
PER CENT COMPLETED
Win Have 521 More Berths
Than Great Britain
Now Has

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here 1RS- night o. Ce8irnzEu Harley
@ TIE sA5p7zrE hoard in a fraEk
statement secrt=E firth rhs ship
building situation II The United
States
Before tAs NarE1zzI Marine league
Mr. Hurley disclosed that despite
delays tEs country soG- VII have
- STEEL ans wu03ez Ways turning
mammoth steel SGGpE-Iz6EEE pro
gram g Ea21. go tons q Iarch l.
VAS 5 Per cent @ It's way % CON-
paa-1cE. his dos Eo@ Ea2E that
IS per cent are n the water. but
that construction @S \ whole had
advanced that far EEht Per cent
q TIE VsEseaS actually have been pat
into service. 1Tr. Hurley szEE
TIE EEree government f1hEEc2+inE
y2rL7S ns1r Philadelphia. whs1 IN fun
operation viii BE abe to produce
Mr. Hurley sid Ec-e ships in n
year than ali the yards q Eng
land heretofore the greatest ship
building country in the world
-H1E ~GH~G LEAmN&Gz
TIE high point IN the curve q
production has been delayed Mr.
Hurley Pointed cut ~ a number
irE uvercc-a- he declared and BE-
fore many months, the peak vii
have been reached
When the hlEh point q the carve
6EaIIy has been reached and the
maEn5tu5e q Americas ShipSuiidinE
Is realized he said 1t viii he a
continuous performance q prCduc-
ton and launching
There were 3 steel sAfpyzr7s in
America ~ the time q cur entrance
into the var We have located 81
additional steel and WOOD yards
while Is ether yards have been eX-
pzn6ed We are building in the
new and expanded steel yards is
new steel ship WAYS ~ = more
than AZ present exist II all the ship
yards - England
1t took Germany forty years -
build ID her mighty military IA
chine In less than eight months
ne have built NJ q ShiphuttdInE ma
chine which. when il Ee.S into fun
swing. VIII defeat the military ma
chine Ct Germany
The total amount q cur steel
construction program On March I
vas E.2aS.TaS dead weight tons This
Is made Up q 5.1sa,Saa dead weight
tons under contract with the ewer-
Eenry feet corporation and 2e4S.4aS
dead weight tons q FequisitiCn YES
- Per Cent cempIstsd.
of this total steel construction
s.1sS 60 dead weight tons. OF sp-
5 per cent has been
con pIstnd- ~ the amount q steel
ships under contract and under |
SIS As dad weight tons /
or approximately eiEht Per cent we're
actually completed and in service On
March 1 CT this year. nearly q month
axe This amount Of floating ton
naEe exceeds cur total output in
ISIS. Including steel wooden and
sailing vessels but approximately
SO Per cent
AT the outset the s. old steel
yards began increasing their Capa-
city until they now have lsS WAYS
as against Is eight months aEo- A
year ago. wooden shiphuildinE in the /
United States &Eas almost = lost art /
We found q cid wooden shipyards |
with = ship WAYS The capacity /
Esr wooden ShipbuiIdinE has been in |
rteased until re now have 81 wooden /
Yards with 50 ways 4
completed or nearing completion
Assuming that these ways Will i
zach produce two standard ships per 4
year. ne should turn cut about =
500 Go dead weight tons Of wooden 4
annually These So wooden 4
shiphuildinE WAYS. now nearing com
lletfon. added to our 29S steel build
.nE WAYS. viii give Us a total OF 80 \
,erths upon which to build steel and Il
wooden vessels
With cur total q 80 wood and
steel WAYS re viii have 81 more
1erths than Sir Erie Geddes in his 4
recent speech stated England has at
he present time