AMERICAN SHIPBUILDING IN 1916.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1696, 10 April 1917, Page 1

AMERICAN SHIPBUILDING IN 1916.

The Bureau of Navigation, Department of Commerce, reports that during the year I9J(i private Ameriean shipyards limit ,1.193 merehanl vessels of 520,847 gross tons, which Inna 1 been ollicially munhered for American shipowners and accordingly arc now in trade or about to engage in trade. American shipbuilders also built 50 vessels of 39,392 gross tons for foreign owners, making a total output of 1,213 vessels of 500,239 gross lons for the twelve, months. The record output for the United States was (114,210 gross tons built during the twelve months ended June 30th, BIOS, and the 1910 record was also exceeded during the Usual year 1855, when 583,540 gross tons were built, all in wood, except seven iron vessels of 18,89.1 gross tons. Of the. .1.910 output, 152 vessels of 414,029 gross tons were built of steel, which was exceeded by the output of 149 steel vessels of 450,017 gross tons during the fiscal year 1908. The output of that year, however, was mainly for the Great Lakes, while most of the steel tonnage of 1910 has been built for the ocean foreign trade. Returns of merchant tonnage built in foreign yards during 1910, says the Bureau of Navigation, seem to warrant the opinion that during the past twelve months American shipyards have done more to maintain ocean foreign trade uninterruptedly than the shipyards of all other nations together except Great Britain. T’or the first nine months of 1910 ocean steel merchant tonnage of American shipyards exceeded by 30,000 tons the British output, but after May 30th British yards began to increase work on merchant shipping.