NAVAL CONSTRUCTION.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 502, 8 May 1909, Page 5

NAVAL CONSTRUCTION.

- DREADNOUGHT CONTRACTS / (BT TELEQRAPJI —PRESS • ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.) London, May 6. • • Scott's Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, of Greenock, has secured the contract for one of the four Dreadnoughts to be laid down /by the Admiralty during the current year. '.'vvv •/■' v PLACED AT JARROW. ! (Jtco. May 7, 10.45 p.m.) , ! ... ... ■ London, May 7. I • Palmer's Shipbuilding. Company,.. Jarrow, will build tho' second of tho • four. Dreadnoughts.: . ■■>. AN ANGLO-GERMAN COMPARISON. • Dealing with ■ the navnh construction capaci ; ties of Britain and Germany," the -"Daily Mail" asks:—What is ■ the capacity of tho two countries if eaoh exerted itself to the utmost to build ships of the modern Dreadnought typo? * And the paper answers, its own question by summarising tlie position as follows:-. - filips.—Britain, 17, and 3 more possible; Ger- - many,l4 ready, and 3. under construction. ' Capacity of laying down per annum—Britain, 12 Dreadnoughts; Germany, apparently about 15. , . Time . to. build hulls.—Britain, one' and a half . to two "years; Germany, two to three years. , Timo to. make engines.—Britain, one year. Time to; make armour—Britain, one. and',a half to two years., ' 'lime to mako guns.—Britain, one to one-and a ' half years. Time to complete Dreadnought.—Both Britain and: Germany,, about two and a lialf . years on average. ..."..' ■.