Evening star., 1941-11-30
5hip-a-Day Schedule
OF Maritime Board
Starts Tomorrow
Launching Of 81 for
Leose-Lend Duty by
Jonuoy ] Forecast
Bv WILLIAM ]. MHEATLEY.

The Maritime Commission's ship
a-day schedule will start tomorrow
and by midnight January ! COM
mission officials expect 81 new cargo
vessels will have passed down the
ways to become part of the bridge
OF ships" for carrying lend-lease
supplies over the oceans.
After January / the commission S
schedule will be stepped up toward
the goal of two ships a day which
officials expect to reach by July l.
AS a far-reaching contribution to
national defense, the commission
estimates that 1t will be able to
put ahoat during the first quarter
OF l942 a total of 100000 dead
weight tons of shipping. This total,
4 Is expected. will be increased to
1,400 900 tons in the second quarter,
1.646, 900 tons in the third quarter,
and approximately 1000, 900 tons in
the last quarter.
On Average Basis.
The announced program OF a
ships day, officials explained, Will
be on the average basis for each
month. With most of the launch
ings taking place on Saturdays.
Three ships yesterday were
scheduled to leave their ways this
week. Con mission officials believe.
however, that two more may be
ready before Saturday. All of them
are Liberty ships-the ugly Duck
hngs" and all of them are from new
shipyards.
The Roger 3. Taney and the
Richard Henry Lee will be launched
at the Bethlehem-Fairfield Ship
ward in Baltimore. Miss Mary
Patricia O'Conor. daughter of Gov.
O'Conor of Maryland. will crash the
champagne bottle against the stem
of the Taney. while Mrs. O'Conor,
wife Of the Governor, will chrlsten
the Lee
At Wilmington. N. c., the North
Carolina Shipbuilding Corp, at a
new yard. will send the first OF It's
Liberty ships into the water, with
the wife of Gov. Broughton Of
North Carolina as sponsor. Ground
was broken for the North Carolina
ward on February 3, and on May u
the first two keels we're laid. One
Of these was for the ship TO be
launched Saturday, and the other
will be ready to go into the water on
December 20. There are nine ways
at this yard.
The Thomas Jefferson will be
launched on the West Coast next
SUNDAY, with Mrs. Henry j. Kaiser.
wife of the president OF the TODD
Shipbuilding Corp, as sponsor.
January Goal Is 40.
Information on hand here indl-
Gates that 40 ships will be launched
during January and 80 during
February.
Oficials estimate that during the
frst three months of 1912 II there
are no stoppages of work, more than
a hundred vessels will be launched.
Under this schedule, the American
shipbuilding industry should denver
more ships during the first three
months of 1912 than were produced
in this country during any previous
year since the World War, excepting
the current year.
Oficials said this program does
not include the ship construction
being carried on in this country for
British account. These include 80
ships being constructed at Rich
nond. Calf. and 80 at Portland, Me.
This great speed in delivering
ships has been made possible
through the commissions long-range
building program for the American
merchant marine. Since 1887 ship
building facilities have grown from
10 wards with as building ways to
40 Yards with 275 ways.