The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1918-07-11
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100 SHIPS ON Attn
Officials Pay HIGH Tribute 10
the Workers Who Broke
Marine Records.
HONOR FOR PACIFIC COAST.
Great Takes Get First New Vessel Just
After ldnight--scs York Con-
tributes Five Cargo Ships ard
Mine Sweeper.

Celebrating the striking 81 IS stride
Of about 10000 tons 81 shipping a
month. the Emergency Flee, Corpora.
tloB ~ The United States shipping
Board INSIDE grand Fourth Of july
splash an around the water frontiers
Of The republic BY putting overheard
approximately 100 ships from almost
az many yards
The first dash Of the splash was on
the Great Lakes ut Il :0l a. M, when
a 8.4oo Ton steel Fargo boat slid into
the water
The next one WIS precisely al sun.
rise, when the Standard Shipbuildhg
Company launched 800 ton ship NJ
Shooters Island. New York harbor
Then for the next II hours steel and
wooden ships Of from 3.4oo TO 1900
tons hl, the water In clouds Of smoke
and spray at the rate Of one every
seven minutes, while not less than a
million joyous spectators shouted ,p-
proyal of the greatest and most sub
unptial spectacle that ever graced
Fourth Of July. In all the annals OF
,hipbuiIdng there was never anything
ike H.
The shores OF Puget Sound. San
Francisco bay, Los Angeles, the Co
"a. 81 o no AL ~ A
Delaware, Chesapeake bay, New York
say and all the coasts OF New Eng
and. Lake Superior, Lake Michigan,
he Detroit river and Lake Erie were
aved by the back wash OF the great
,hips OF the Liberty feet rushing to
heir proper element.
Wood and steel We'd with each 9th
or, there being about so ships OF each
class.
The total tonnage was about 100000
tons dead weight.
Not q ship was delayed 10 add It's
launching 10 the ship day OF days.
American records with more than 2S0,-
900 tons. the final week witnessing the
delivery OF 10000 tons.
The Independence day launchings,
therefore, are not piece of deceptive
staging, but represent a big gain In
shipbuildlng, men and management ev-
erywhere having driven TO the limit of
human skill and endurance 10 launch
as many ships as possible on July
that were scheduled for later dates.
The ships put into the water are
greater in tonnage than that OF two
average years prior TO 1915 In the
United States They represent almost
half as much as Great Britain was
wont TO build In whole year.
They are the product Of a hundred
ways, More than 500 ways will soon
be holding building ships.
While the merchant ships-colliers,
refrigerators, tankers, cargo boats
were tumbling into the water, IA de-
stroyers were launched from four
yards or the Atlantic and the Pacific.
They will help 10 make the seas safe
for the freighters of the same natal
day.
Among the specially notable achieve
ments of the day were those Of the
Submarine Boat Corporation on New
ark bay. which launched three $500
ton steel cargo boats; the Union Iron
Works at San Francisco. three of H.
500 tons each the Moore 4 Scott
yards. Oakland, Cal. three refrigera-
tors Of 9,4o0 tons each; the Los An
geles Shipbuiding Company, two car.
go boats Of s.o66 tons the skinner 4
Eddy yards, Seattle, two $500 ton car
goes A number OF other yards launch
ed two ships each Of smaller tonnage
than the foregoing
II was a great cay for ships and by
the same token great day for democ-
racy