New-York tribune., 1920-01-17
Hog Island Leads
World Shipyards
In Production Now
Has Launched Seven.y.eight
Ships, Sixty-four Deliv-
cred; Many Are in Regu-
lar Service as Freighters

Having emerged from the war with
a record of ship production which
aided materially in bridging the At
lantic, the Hog Island shipyard is con
rtbuting more to the success of Amer
lca's merchant marine program thar
any other agency.
Figures made public by the shipyard
officials yesterday show that from Al
gust 5, 1918, to December 81, 1919
seventyfour cargo carriers and tor
army transports were launched and
slXty-four carriers were delivered.
seventy-fourth vessel, the steamship
City Of Flint, was launched December
u, and the sixty-fourth ship delivered
was the Cliffwood, some time later.
Sixty-two steel cargo carriers and
four troop transports were launched a.
Hog Island during the year 1919.
The total TONNAGE launcncu durinf
the sixteen an da half months =
slightly more than one-fourteenth o.
the total steel tonnage launched To-
the Emergency Fleet Corporttion b.
al the shipyards in the United state
from November, 1917, to December q.
1919, giving to Hog Island the creates.
production Of any shipyard in The
world.
The sixty-four cargo carriers which
Hog Island delivered TO the shipping
board have steamer nearly 9,0Oo nau-
tlcal miles, and have carried nearly
o5O,O 900 tons of American products II
al the important ports of the world.
thirty Of the vessels loaded their ini-
tlal cargoes at piers in Phllade lphia'
and several are now running on regular
routes between Philadelphia and Eu-
ropean and South American ports.
The vessels turned out at Hog ISLAND
also have established new records for
rescue work at sea. $50 men and -four
vessels having been saved during tho
last thre months by Hog Island ships
me rescue vessels are the Sangamor,
Schroon> Salvation, Lass. Afel and Le-
high, the two latter having double
rescues to their credit
Hog Island celebrated shc second an
nlversary Of its founding on Scptember
is, 1919, the contract for the cor
structon of the worlds largest ship
yard having been signed on September
l3, construction work starting five days
later. The first keel was laid on Feb
ruary 10. 1918, and the first ship was
launched on August of the same year.
From May until December OF last yea
an average of seven ships were
launched and delivered every month.
Nearly 50000.000 rivets have been
driven. in the hulls of the Hog Island
ships, number sufficient, allowlnl.
half-inch air space. TO reach from Hog
Island to Brest, France, and were tho
vessels that have been launched at Hor
Island anchored in the Delaware four
ship lengths apart they would reach
from Market Street wharf to 81 point
about a mile below Chester.
The "A" type. or cargo carriers. bulls
at the Hog Island shipyard are of the
three deck type, 40i feet long. 20 fee
beam. and make speed of eleven anc
one-half knots. They can carry ap
prox'mately $500 tons of cargo aud are
manned by crew of forty-six Thu
vessels arc oil burners and arc driven
by gearcd turbines of $500 shaft horse
power.
The "R" type vessel (army trans
ports) will make speed of fifteen and
one-half knots. They are 450 feet lon.
and will carry 900 officers and men,.
Fhiladelphia Public Ledger.