BRITISH SHIPS

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 36, 10 August 1918, Page 6

BRITISH SHIPS

BUILDING AND SALVING

OUTPUT LIMITED BY SUPPLY OF

LABOUR.

(Received August 10, 1.30 p,m.)

■■■''■/ ; LONDON, 9th August. Lord;_ Pirrie, Controller of Merchant Shipbuilding, stated in an interview that there are 240 separate shipbuilding, repairing, and 1 marine engineering establishments under his department. The better synchronising of hulls and machinery had resulted in a marked acceleration ■ of,output. There;was now very rarely any delay due to waiting for machinery for standard ships, because it was interchangeable. Any immediate material increase in the present rate of output was hardly' to be expected until additional skilled workers were obtained.

Fifty-six small concrete ships were under construction. They, were, built in wooden moulds, in which steel rods to form the reinforcement, were placed, and the concrete was poured, in, ■ The number of vessels . salved after being damaged had recently increased, owing to the improvement in the Admiralty's salvage organisation and . the devices used to minimise damage.