The Pascagoula chronicle. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1905-1920, 1919-06-14
MANY SHIPS ARE
BUILT in south

Pascagoula-Moss Point Lead AL
Ports With Eleven Steamers for
Government.
Ihat slXty-four wooden, steel an
concrete ships for the new America
marine were built, equipped and man
placed in active service by the shiI
yards OF the South extending from
Savannah, Ga, to New Orleans. La
| within the period of one year, is th
record shown by figures complied b,
E. T. Hollingsworth, Jr., and pub
lished in the Manufacturers Record i,
the issue of May %, 1919.
Thus. with sixty-four ships in the
water and many more on the ways
nearing completion, the South has
without boasting, shown the Doubt
ing ThOmases' of the north and west
that she can build ships with the best
of them, and now, after the furry and
worry OF war construction is over
many of the plants have decided tc
continue indefinitely with shipbuild
ing, having private contracts for steel
wood and concrete vessels, so that the
future of the industry in this section
seems assured, the writer states.
Held as Wonderful Record.
"This is truly a wonderful recorI
for a section that has in the past
been knnown mainly as an agricul.
tural sectionj' Mr. SIollingsworta
writes as he describes the ardor with
which the business men of the South,
who have never before engaged in the
building of ships and whose sea expe-
rience was nothing more than trip
from Key West to Havana, did their
part in the war.
'The first keel in the Southern dis
trict was laid August 81, 1917, by the
American Shipbuilding Company Of
Brunswick, Ga, and the 3500-ton wood
en- hull was launched at the plant of
the Tampa Dock Company, Tampa,
Fla, ON May s, 1918, after which the
j. M. Murdoch yard in Jacksonville,
launched the second wooden ship on
June "a, 1918, and the Merril-Ste-
vens yard, in Jacksonville, launched
the first composite vessel on May 80,
1918, this plant also making a record
in keel laying and has since turned out
four composite and one steel vessel
OF the concrete ships contracted for
in the Southern district, the Atlantus
was the first to be built and launched
by the Liberty Shipbuilding Company
of Brunswick, Ga, while the A. Bent.
ley & Sons Co. at Jacksonville; are
completing two 7500ton concrete
and the Liberty Shipbuild-
ing Company of Wilmington, N. c.,
are building two 35e9-ton concrete
cargo carriers, and the Fred 7. Ley
Company of Mobile are turning out
concrete ships for the shipping
beard"
1t is shown that the Americann
Company, Brunswick,
Ca. has built and launched four YES
sells; the Terry Shipbuilding Corpora
ion, Savannah, Ga, four; Southland
Company, Savannah, Ga,
our; United States Maritime Corpo-
alton, Brunswick, Ga, three; Liberty
Company, Brunswick
Ia, one; st. Johns River Yard,
Fla, four; Morey and
Thomas Yard, Jacksonville, Fla, Mer-
'ill-Stevens Shipbuilding Corporation,
Fla, five; Tampa DOCK |
company, Tampa, Fla, three; Oscar
Daniels Company, Tampa, FL, one; |
Tampa Shipbuildinng and Engineering |
Company, Tampa, Fla, two; Pensa' /
ola Shipbuilding Company OF ZEN
acola. onne;- Dierks-B -Blodgett ship
,uilding Company, Pascagoula. MISS,
i've; Hodge Ship Company, Moss foht'
Hiss. three: Dantzler Shipbuilding
,ompny, Moss Point, Miss, three;
louisiana Shipbuilding Company, Sill
ell La..two, and the Jahncke Ship
uilding Corporation, of Madisonvilie'
IA, three.
" means of correct figures and facts