SHIP-BUILDING RECORD.
All previous records in ship finishing, it is reported, have been beaten by a marvellous performance on the part of the men of Messrs Workman, Clark and Co., Ltd., Belfast, who have completed a standard ship of 8000 tons in three and three-quarter days. The vessel left the stocks on a Thursday afternoon (main engines and boilers were all on board the same evening), and so rapidly was she brougrit forward that she Tan her mooring trials on the Friday afterrio"b*n. Sleam was up 44 hours after the boilers were in place on the Saturday, which was a short day, and on the Sunday the ship left' for her preliminary run, the trials proving satisfactory in every respect. The previous record was (held by Messrs Harland nnd Wolff, Ltd. Belfast, who finished a vessel month in five da vs.
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Taihape Daily Times, 6 December 1918, Page 3
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141SHIP-BUILDING RECORD. Taihape Daily Times, 6 December 1918, Page 3
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