SHIPYARDS V. U-BOATS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 277, 12 August 1918, Page 6

SHIPYARDS V. U-BOATS

THE RACE AGAINST THE PIRATES

STATEMENT BY LORD PIRRIE

London, August 9. Lord Pirrie, Controller of Merclnnt Shipbuilding, stnted in an interview that there are 210 separate shipbuilding, repairing, and marine engineering establishments under his Department. The better fiychrnnising of hulls and machinery h<;d resulted in a marked acceleration of output. There was now very rarely any delay due to waiting for machinery for standard ships, because it was interchangeable. Any immediate material increase in the present rate of output was hardly to lie expected until additional skilled workers were obtained. Fiftyfix small conoreto ships were under construotion. They were built-in wooden moulds, in which 6teel rods to form tho reinforcement were placed, and the conoreto was poured in. The number of vessels salved after being damaged had recently increased, owing to tho improvement in the Admiralty's salvage organisation and the devices used to minimise damage—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. THE JULY OUTPUT IN AMERICA LAUNCHTNGS EKTRTCTt YEARLY PRE-WAR EFFORT, Washington, August 9. It is officially announced that launcliings in American yards in July were 67' steel ships of 435.214 deadweight tons, 53 wooden ships, of 187,000 _ deadweight tons, and three composite ships of 11,000 deadweight tons. In the same neriod 41 vessels of 235,052 deadweight ij'is were completed, of which 30 were steel shins of 217,052 deadweight tons and five wooden ships of 18,000 deadweight tons. The launohings exceed the yearly output before the war.-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.