The New York herald., 1920-01-02
HOG ISLAND SHIP
TONNAGE PASSES
HALF A MILLION
Total Output One-Fourteenth
of Whole Steel Tonnage for
Shipping Board.

In sixteen and a half months ending De
cember 81 the American Internationa
Shipbuilding Corporation, Hog Island. Pa.
launched 615,o50 deadweight tons of stee
ships and delivered SOC. 800 deadweight tons
composed of seventy-four cargo carriers
and four army transports launched anc
sixty-four carriers delivered.
The seventy-fourth cargo vessel. the
City of Flint was launched December 27
and the sixty-fourth vessel, the Cliffwood
has just been delivered.
The total tonnage launched at the Hog
Island plant during the period from Al
gust 5. 1918, to December 81, 1919, is little
more than one-fourteenth of the total steel
tonnage launched for the United States
Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corpora
ton by all the shipyards In the United
States from November, 1917. to December
1918, giving the Hog Island yards the great
est production record of any shipyard in
the world. The total deadweight steel
tonnage launched by all the shipyards in
the United States from November 1917. to
December last was S,SS2,215, of which 200,
600 tons were launched by the shipyards
along the Delaware River from Bristol to
Wilmington, the Hog Island yard launch
ing more than one-half of the total ton
mage along the river.
More than any other single agency the
Hog Island shipyard has contributed to
the success of the new Merchant Marine
programme of the country 1t has been
responsible for the success of the fabri-
Gated ship, which three years ago was
looked upon as sheer fancy. The sixty
four cargo carriers which have been de-
livered to the Shipping Board by the
Hog Island yard have steamed nearly
100000 nautical miles and have carried
nearly $4,000 tons of American products
TO all the important parts of the world
Thirty of the vessels loaded their initial
cargoes at piers in Philadelphia and sew
eral are now running on regular routes
between Philadelphia and European and
South American ports. The Hog Island
ships have functioned perfectly on their
trips and have been roundly commended
by foreign shipbuilders and by their cap
tains and crews. says the statement of
the board The vessels turned out also
have established new records for rescue
work at sea; no less than $50 men and
four ships have been saved during the
last three months by the Hog Island
built ships. The rescue vessels are the
Sangamon. the Schroon. the Salvation
Lass the Afel and the Lehigh, the latter
two having doub' rescues to their credit.
Hog Island Gel ted the second ami
versary OF its birth on September IS. 1919
the contract for the construction of the
worlds largest shipyard having been
signed on September 13. 1917, construction
work starting five days later. The first
keel was laid on February II, 1918, and the
first ship launched on August 5. 1915
Eleven others followed during the closing
months Of 1918. but the real stride of the
yard was struck during 1919 when sixty
eight ships were launched, or an average
of one and one-third ships week. From
May until December of last year an aver
age of seven ships was launched and de-
hvered every month. The a type. or
cargo carriers. are OF the three-deck type,
do1 feet long, fifty feet beam and make a
speed OF 1ll2 knots. They can carry ap-
proximately $500 tons of cargo and arc
manned by crew Of forty-six. They are
oil burners and are driven by geared tur-
bines of $500 shaft horsepower. The r
type. or transports. will make 15Is knots.
are $50 long, and will carry 200 officers
and men.