Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-23
STEEL SHIPBUILDENG
PROGRESSING RAPIDLY
Over Hundred Thousand Tons
Added to Fleet Within
Last Two Weeks

The first two weeks of May have
added 12S.33O tons of steel ships to the
new American merchant marine. Last
weeks deliveries (for the week ended
May 10 aggregate is.l5O tons of steel
ships and that. added to the 3O.1SO tons
delivered in the preceding week. brought
the total to 12s,33O. says the Emergency
Fleet News
It is nov virtually certain that the
record deliveries Of April. agGreEatinC
10, 600 tons. will he surpassed in May
The average rate of deliveries in May
thus far is 5000 tons per day more than
in Anril. when GNOn tons daily average
of steel ships were officially reported de-
livered For the first eleven days Of Nav
the average was more than 1900 tons
of ships day. These figures are based
on official reports to the Emergency
Fleet Corporation. According to figures
on April deliveries given out by the COM
missioner of navigation approximately
@4NnoO tons of steel shipping We're de-
lvered in April, averaging more than
5000 tons daily. The official figures for
May thus far surpaas even that average
by more than 1000 tons daily
Forty-thrce Wooden Hulls In Water
Wood ship construction also is COM
ing along in an encouraging manner
Thus far there have been launched
forty-six wooden hulls. Up to MAY 10
official records disclose that eleven
wooden huls, with a total aggregate
of $4,000 deadweight tonnage, were
launched since the first Of the month
Seven requisitioned vessels and two
contract ships of steel construction are
included in the May deliveries recorded
last week Among the reQuisitioned
ships was the big tanker Ampetco, built
in the Sparrows Point vard of the Beth
lehem Shipbuildng Corporation near
Baltimore. The AmpetCO is vessel of
1880 deadweiEht tons. She is 465 feet
: inches long, so feet beam and SO feet
3 inches depth. and is equipped with
quadruple expansion engines and three
Scotch boilers.
Another large vessel delivered was the
contract ship West Lianga, of $500 tons.
built by the Skinner & Eddy corpora =
ton at Seattle, Wash. She was delivered
to the United States Shipping Board
May 3. The West Lianga. which was
launched in record time tprior to the
launching of the TuCkahoe in twenty
seven days al the Camden plant of the
New York Shipbulding Corporation)
goes on the list of delivered contract
ships as No 5, all of which, incidentally
have been built by the Skinner & Eddy
Corporation
Delivery on Contract
Another contract ship was entered
upon the list of delivery last week how
ever, when the 35OO-ton cargo vessel
Lake Lewando was completed by the
American Shipbuilding Corporation in
its Cleveland yards. The American cor
poration has the honor of being the
second shipbuilding company to break
into the contract delivery column. Six
vessels contracted for by the Emergency
Fleet Corporation have been delivered
to date, with a total of 1850 dead
weight tons.
Other steel ships Tequisitioned while
on the ways) delivered in the week
ended May. II include the Lake Clear,
a 3l00-tonner, cargo ship. built by the
American Shipbuildng Corporation in
its Chicago yards; the Winono of
$500 tons, a cargo ship, built by the
Great Lakes Engineering Company at
Ecorse, Mich; the Pennsylvania. a
| 7OOO-ton tanker, built by the Pennsyl-
vania Shipbuilding Company at Glou-
cester, y, J. ; the 4000-ton cargo ship
Piqua, built by the Pusey & Jones
Company at Wilmington, Del the
Muscatine, a 73OO-ton refrigerator ship
built by the Standard Shipbuilding Com
| pany at it's New York yards and the
| Lake Owens. of 1900 tons, a cargo YES
sci. built by the Great Lakes Engineer
! ing Company at ECorse, Mich.
| Total deliveries of steel ships (re-
! uuistioned) to date aggregate l2S in
number, of $4,000 deadweight tons
| The six contract ships delivered u
date aggregate 1850 tons; total de-
liveries to date, s9l,6l0 tons,