ALL RECORDS BROKEN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 September 1942, Page 3

ALL RECORDS BROKEN

LIBERTY SHIP LAUNCHED TEN DAYS AFTER LAYING . OF KEEL. GREATER OUTPUT AIMED AT • IN BRITAIN. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. September 23. Breaking all shipbuilding ’•‘records, one of Mr Henry J. Kaiser’s Pacific coast shipyards today launched a 10,000-ton Liberty cargo ship 10 days after the keel had been laid, states an agency message. The ship will be delivered on Sunday, making the time from the keellaying to the delivery 14 days. Mr Kaiser's previous record was the launching of a vessel 24 days after the keel had been laid, and that ship was delivered five days later. In London today the Prime Minister, Mr Churchill, in a message of good wishes to a representative conference of employers and workers in the shipbuilding and ship-repairing industry, said, “Though the shipping position has improved recently, it is still grave.’’ The conference unanimously adopted a resolution pledging itself to do the utmost in its power to give greater output in all classes of work.

REMARKABLE SPEED SHIP 87 PER CENT COMPLETED. BOILERS INSTALLED AND STEAM UP. (Received This Day, 9.55 a.m.) NEW YORK, September 24.. Mr H. J. Kaiser said that the 10,500ton Liberty ship which was launched at Portland yesterday in the record time of ten days after the laying of the keel had her boilers installed and steam up, and was 87 per cent completed. The first world war record for the similar construction of a ship was 212 days. Mr Kaiser built his first ship last September.