Clyde Shipping in 1896.

Hastings Standard, Issue 277, 22 March 1897, Page 4

Clyde Shipping in 1896.

Last year was the most prosperous in the history of this great industry, surpassing even 1883, which has hitherto held the record. There were launched in all 800 vessels, with an aggregate measurement of 420.710 toil*, which is 0000 tons mare than in 18H;-{ and C:-).7.5y tons more than in 1.M!).-,. The total value of the ne<v vessels is about '■)} millions sterling. Although ttfo Clyde launched about a third or the entire shipbuilding output oE the kingdom last year, the woi k is distributed over so many yards—fifty in all —that the highest of them occupies only the fourth place in the shipbuilder's roll for 1806. The lirm in question is Messrs Charles Council and Co., Scotstoun, whose total was 40,861 tons. Messrs Stephens, of Linthouse, second, and Messrs Denny, of Dumbarton, third. Steel has now entirely superseded iron as a shipbuilding material on the Clyde, and wood is jnly used in building yachts. The number of line steam yachts launched during the year was exceptionally large, and it is note-worthy that many of the best of these were built for American owners. Only nineteen sailing vessels were launched on the Clyde during Ik'JO. Twin-screw - steamers show an increased tonnage of 200,000 tons. The biggest of these —the P. and 0. Company's new liner, The Candia —was too large to be taken into any dock at Greenock, where she was built, and consequently had to be taken to Glasgow to receive her engines. This difficulty is one which will be increasingly felt as monster steamers become more numerous, and ports which wish to receive them will have to enlarge their dock accommodation to keep abreast of the times. The Australian Colonies do not figure so hugely as usual in the list of customers, but for the Castle line of South African packets there were launched five big steamers and a tug, representing a total of 127.0; i 0 tons. The prospects for this year are exceptionally go<»d. tlie orders in hand exceeding the unprecedented total of ;-!00,;>00 tons. In the shops of thirty-nine linns engaged in marine engineering, Irade is so brisk that difficulty is experienced in obtaining a. sufficient number of skilled hands. It is estimated that the total number of men who are. directly or indirectly employed in the ship building said; ami engineering shops of the Clyde is close upon -10,000. If' strikes are avoided this ought to be a splendid year for them (adds the correspondent of the Otago Daily Times). | Nkii.'s <'ki.i-.bu\ ri-.i> Liviu; Toxic, a ! pure botntiie ieined\ lor .■ 11 allertions of the lher. l.iliull-iH-ss, jaillldice, \ellouuess of the sl.iu. iudij-i-siitm, Av. In buttle* '2 s and '2s nd, at Neil', Hotatiic 1 >i-pi-ii; urv, Kmci'son street. Napier, and ull leading storekeeper-;. - Ai>\T. r.vrn<:i;~"N \ Co.. Nnpier, for lloW and Girls' Hoot-!. Sliot-s and Hoot* tiolil G ; hlioe-. (rem IN; Slippers. '.ld p. r pair; ( biidn-n'-, Hoot, ,uid sluh-m froui 1 • per p.uil ; eisrN' |mi mid Hluek Sirnp. oi I/tee, from .'is pit- pair. At I tt i n iVt Hiii'-rtsou-street. Niiper. - AnvT. 1-,l'ri.i'S i)i |\im. we I i:-e% Toyie eonmid Iron in n, lih,l lit ! {•'int.* ■ and U tliw most. i u I 1 [ -ft>-11 l;rin niiiL-. i I !fl a 'it a;".-! \it 1 | <-«neiv.l. 0d per bottle. lo be «tiI t-iuted troui A. r.t et.k», chemist, Nupter j Jl ir. i it ■-!! !• .m.iig country s . \n>r. ! Neil ■> ('oxt'oi'Ni) r,i, A 1. • iie.l-1 medicine fur ps;•.!)>.• the j blood aiul tennis,' Up the s% *teyi, hi i;.trj.;e j bottle* »t 'm '..»<! itt |»Hf>««ii-.arv. I J-.m.-rsun --t.rei.-t, Napier, Mid ail leading storekeeper--. • AI'VT.