SHIPS LAUNCHED IN 30 DAYS

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 282, 27 August 1942, Page 5

SHIPS LAUNCHED IN 30 DAYS

New Building Record (Received August 26, 7 p.m.) ALAMEDA (California), August 25. Two steel cargo ships were launched simultaneously at the Pacific Bridge Company yard 22 working days after the keels were laid. This is another shipbuilding record. The previous record was 30 days. The keels were laid end to end in a dock eight feet below water-level and (lie ships were launched b> flooding the basin.

SHIPS’ OFFICERS British Federation

(BritlS'li Official Wireless.) RUGBY, August 25. Approximately 30,000 British captains, navigating engineers, radio officers, pursers, and ships’ surgeons are federated in one organization concerned with the protection and promotion of the interests of ships’ officers. This affiliation has been brought about by a working arrangement reached between the associations and unions concerned throughout the Empire. SEAMEN’S COMPENSATION CANBERRA, August 25. The immediate tirovision of additional benefits to seamen who sutler as a result of enemy action, is granted by national security regulations issued tonight, ’i’hey give an all-round increase in the maximum amounts of compensation that may lie granted for loss of effects. Dentures, spectacles, and other curative apparatus will be replaced by the Commonwealth, and n funeral grant up to £l5 will be made where a seaman's death is directly attributable Io war injury. 'Pile claims of seamen who are covered by the Act have been 'extended to include seamen in New Zealand and merchant ships with Australian crews which are employed on the Australian coast.