SHIPBUILDING RECORD

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXII, Issue 254, 25 September 1942, Page 5

SHIPBUILDING RECORD

(Rec. 9.55 a.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 23. Breaking all shipbuilding records, one of Mr H. J. Kaiser’s Pacific coast shipvards to-day 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 keel-laying 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. —Official Wireless/ A New York cable reports that Mr Kaiser said that the ship had her boilers installed and steam up and was 87 per cent, completed. Tho first World War record for ships of similar construction was 212 days. Mr Kaiser built his first ship last September. The United States Navy Department announced that an Italian submarine torpedoed and sank a med-ium-sized United States merchantman several hundred miles off the northern coast of South America in tho middle of August. Reports confirm that tho 4058-ton Spanish steamer Monte Gorhea has been sunk near Martinique with the loss of 24 of tho 47 passengers.