BRITISH SHIPBUILDING.
In a recent speech the British Shipping Controller spoke with reasoned confidence of the ability of the British shipbuilding industry to hold its own against all-comers. Years and years of preparation and experience, were necessary for a nation to build up a great shipbuilding industry, and Britain alone had passed through that essential period. Tie saw great advantages, too, from the difficulties which surround all industrial enterprises at the present time. Improvements did not come when business was good and everything was booming ; genius and ability came to the front * m time of depression. Speaking of the future of the oil engine fbr marine purposes— a field m which British mar rine engineers are making rapid | strides — he referred to a British ship of 12,000 tons which had been out to the Far East and back at a speed of 12 knots and a consumption of oil of only about 20 tons per day. A steam- | ship would have required about fc>Q i tons of ooal per day.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLI, Issue 9543, 23 June 1921, Page 7
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