The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-12-23


Large Ships Are Built to Employ
Them-countries in Which the
Great Bulk Of the New Tonnage Is
Being Built Are the United States,
Great Britain and Japan-Laroe
Percentage Is Steel or Iron.
oil by merchant shipping that with
In the last year the worlds tonnage
equipped for the use of oil as fuel
for the boilers or in internal cOmbus-
ton engines has increased by half,
according to the annual report Of
Lloyds' Register Of Shipping.
AS a result the proportion Of the
worlds tonnage fitted for coal burn
ing has declined from 81 to IS per
cent, while that equipped for oil burn
Ing has risen from l. per cent to l8
per cent. There has been no change
In the relative position of shipping
having sail power only, which still
constitutes 6 per cent of the worlds
Shipping of 100 gross tons and over.
New ships classed during the last
year whlcl, were fitted for burning
oil fuel numbered 426 vessels Of
1,995,OO0 gross tons as compared with
211 vessels Of 10000 tons during
the previous year.
Since the armistice great develop
ment has taken place in the use Of
internal combustion engines, and dur
ing the last year classification was
made of twenty-eight new vessels fit
ted with such engines as their main
propelling power. At present there
are under construction under the SUI
pervision of Lloyds' Register more
than $50 sets of Diesel engines and
about the same number Of sets of oil
engines other than the Diesel tyne
half of which are building in the
United Kingdom. The largest Diesel
engines are those for the GlenOgle.
Of 9.15O gross tons. The largest oil
engined vessels completed during the
year was the Afrlka, of S,397 tons.
Turbine Still Largely in Use.
geared steam turbines is indicated by
the fact that in the last year 245 such
vessels. aggregating 1.2SG,OO0 gross
tons. have been classed.
Reviewing conditions during the
year LloydS' Register points out that
over 4,25O,OOO tons of shipping were
classed, in comparison with 3,SO0,O 900
tons in the previous twelve months
and that at the end of last June the
total of merchant vessels under c'as
sificat ton was 100000 tons.
The countries in which the great
bulk of the new tonnage has been
built, it is pointed out, are the United
States, the United Kingdom and ia
pan. Other countries in which there
is at present a comparatively large
amount of merchant shipping being
constructed are Holland Canad
Italy, Sweden, Spain and Denmark.
Because of the great amount of re-
conditioning undertaken by shpbuild-
ers after the war and the conversion
of very large number Of vessels to
burn oil instead Of coal the output OF
new tonnage, 1t is stated has undoubt-
eddy been limited.
Wooden Ships Share Small.
Vessels classed in Lloyds' Register
Book at the end Of the year closing
with June 80 last aggregate 9,5S7. OF
a total tonnage Of more than 23OO0,-
600 gross. The division is shown as
follows:
Iron and steel
Steam ..s.%S 24.1l5'2 zoo
Sall 3S 300
wood and composite
steam and sail............ 294 1901
IOtal ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS $685. zo.Vio'7Ao
More than Sc per cent of the total
tonnage is composed of steel or iron
steamers.
During the year ended June 30 last
$50 vessels. of 100000 tons. were
classed in the United States: 594 of
1891 900, in the United Kingdom, and
105, of 571,O00 in Japan. More than
96 per cent of this tonnage consists
of iron and steel steamers.
Striking increase is shown in the
number of large vessels under con-
struction, fifty-six Of those building
being each of 10000 gross tons or