MODERN SHIPBUILDING.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 645, 23 October 1909, Page 5

MODERN SHIPBUILDING.

'If'■:■.■■■ ''■'■-■■: GREAT GERMAN cPLANT.. ■;■; ■]'■<■ V; (By Telegraph-Press .X'ssoela't'loniCopyrlElit.),",. :• ;v ; .Borlin,vpitober-'2i.V' Tho Vulcan Shipbuilding Company, of (Stettin and Hamburg, is incrdaskV.its'|capitai.-.by,.d quarter of a million,sferlihgy':''".l.,. . •■■. ,: ;.; MOVEMENT '^::

yards Tit ' Stettin,'; are a:,inaryellous growth, ;antt •a,;.signiucant. illustration of the' expansion wthe.priyftW shipbiiilding:yards of Germany.- ' ■ ino. '.modern ..Drtodnoiight .'.-.development .■'• has' : made .Gel-ninny;,'for, good ,or ill, a ■deep-woW .-■ .naval. powerivthatVis td'.say,-everything, tends' ' to. the.North.Sea,* .and'chiefly to-..tho Elbe;- ' • i'hat.'is why.tho^Vulcan'Company, in addition!' •to'its.groat yard; neai'.-Stettin.on the Oder, is : completing, another establishment at' Hamburg, '•wJhioh.VrtUrincre'asß tho company's shipbuilding ; capacity by 50. or 'oven ;75''per cent. The general movoinent>;to -the -'North .;Sea'.'means- that '■ Germany'.must,:spend - millions ■ in?new - iplaht,' >' and;.nO;douM .explains 'the .Vulcan .Company's' ; increase.m.capital,■ That increase is. probably no less, important' '.than .the .augmentation some' ..time ago of'Kriipp's"capital,, :irhibh passef- ' scarcely noticed in; Britain, 'although it meant ■ ; so> imich.:vi-;i .'.; v' ,:;,'!;■/.-,•:.-■ .■;'..■;■;,...•;-.;■.;.-.': :...■', t, ■ >.', Describing, the rVulcan Company's extensions at Hamburg,..a writer ..in 'Tho Time's", says -Already .there, are, at Hamburg, ,two building ■■ .slips than ! those.'at Stettin,-'' for, ' con" .ships.'.which' 'may even' largely exceed' • ..BOOit. .in length 'and.'have af.beam' of 100 ft; This ;,new establishment, which will have'a floating .uock.'capable : of ;> the largest Kf e ]-?i'i?rV i i. k ! lsr ' ■ fc'buUt,-.'is:' situated on thS•.Ellerholzhafen,-which.' opens through the .shipbuilding,.yard-of;,Messrs; Blohm and Vo'sv , Evidently, the directors of the.Yiilcan Company^ 'aro:;:,.anticipat>ng,,i;tho;:..constructioii''Of.vthe' ' : mastpdons; of .theVfuhre,, which' will be', more ' ..suited .ior.;thevNorth...Sea. thanVto.the. shallower: Waters'.of ..the; Oder' and; ; tho;/Baltic.r.'lt is iiS possible : to.'.iiefrainP from .rendering' a.. tribute of ~admiration i to,th9: energy. ;' and ...enterprise with .which; theyare; preparing , to. meet ;tho larger,.demands.,aud ; new -conditions 'Of tbW ' future.'.r;--'.-> -:.,.,;,i.;:.•;-.;,:'i. ; i-,.', ..->•>,■ !-••'•.■■ ~.■:*:':•"" '■:' Keferring; : to''thoVVulcan'-Company's 1 .Stettin : works,;-theveame; writer, points'.out that' the company,., not ionl^bnilaV,Dreadnoughts for tlie: but palatial vessels like the v tt^; rfJt £ al lw Z llh !\ m '}\ Kronprinzessin Ceciliefor;the,..Norddeutschor Lloyd.- The.register '.tonnage..of.,'the :liners''con.'trubted-hbs increased,'from,the;sooo.'of the..White Star' J V /?? P 7-?F s '? n ■vP^ ll, < ! -i ; -^clnsi T e', of. torpedo : craft, ...the / warships: built'at . Stettin-has,risen-from the 2170'bf.the"friirarei' ■ of modern.;Drea'(lnou ? iits, facts 'may se ;r^ a ? : an -' '"to ,°* a -firm -which,, from, sma!l n begmnmgs ,in ,1851, 'took its' present name in.lßs7,,became -tho' most important .shipbuldm-j-yard ;in Germany, celebrated. id, 1907,', and. has since!"fa) meet the needs pf.the. German fleet, orcatlv in creased .is 'now 'openimr another, large yard, on .the Elbe ■"■' 1 iu'7i ,e ' Y"' C,in ?« tl i|">''. grown pari'passu with the developmeut.iOf. the German fleet. Its treaf increase 'began/ with' thni: shipbuilding Vro Brammo; : of;iß73i,with.;.the Navy Law of 1900 every :;department,.'was-.expanded; • and. the amendments .to the 'law-in, 1906 and 1908 have led to still .greater developments. The hi«torv . of this very- important "shipbuilding' establishment, is. therefore, -of; great interest for■ an understanding 'of the ..relationship' between programmes, of: naval construction and the de yeloprnent.'of -national'.; resources'in'all tho«e industries which;are concerned in the-buildin? of warships."; • .. ; ~:••: ~, -.:• ', """".^h