RECORD SHIP-BUILDERS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1359, 9 February 1912, Page 2

RECORD SHIP-BUILDERS.

07,000 TONS BUILT IN 1911. The great shipvard of Messrs. Harland and AVollf, Ltd., Bellas), which at present ciuplovs 15,(100 hands, and has a weekly wages bills of .i!2.j,H011, last year broke all records in at least thrco directions, having had— 1. 'The largest output of any single yard in the history of shipbuilding; 2. The largest output, for (he year for the thirteenth time; and 3. The highest horse-power. AVhen the Demorara, built for the Royal Mail Steam Packet Co., was sent into the water on December 20, the last launch of the year will have taken place from the yard. That made the tenth vessel launched bv the firm since January 1 last, the total tonnage being 118,203, which is about three hundred tons more than Messrs. Swan, Hunter, and Richardson, which previously held the record, launched in IOOIi. The total horse-power of the ten vessels built by Harland and W'ollV during tho present year was 07,000 —a big advance on anything hitherto known! The biggest ship of the fen was, of course. Hie \Vhile Star liner Titanic, whose adjusted tonnage is now given as ■Hi.(HM). Messrs. Harland and AVoIIT havo also a remarkably largo number of orders on hand, the principal being a vessel of .12,000 tuns for the Holland-America Line.