SHIPPING RECORD.
ALL THE WORLD AT IVORK ON ;". ■ -'-y NEW;- VESSELS. ;''; : ' LONDON, November 6. • Feverish t effprtfearei being made all over the '. world" to siipply* tlie* dehiand for ships.' ';. •* .;'* ' - ; ■ 1 * ; • : In the United KingdohV, owing to the claims of the Navy, the building of merchant ships, though 'accelerated- recently. i s still ifav belbw normal, but in neutral countries, Especially 'in the United' -States,' every effort 'is'bea'ng made to increase tonnage, '' : *. '' J " > A "large measfttrfeiof success has attended theso effort's. ■ Lloyd's -Register of -shipping'* says; that there, is" how' being built ' undei v ' 'the' ' ihs^'ectioif - 1 of tlie register a ; larger 1 amount : : of ' shipping tliftn has oyer befcn reJoorded in the his- -', toi'y of 'th©'."sbc'iety— ri'aihely! 6^ 'vest- ' sela of 2,282,709 tons. " : .. . . TNew m.ethod^'' ai-e being tried; In .America^ owing' to the demand. for steel, , •a- *ii\iVnb6r .of large wboilen vessels ai'e under construction. '-.ln the United King- . doni'-'two Vessels, are" being built with turbo-electric 1 propelling 1 piaivt^ eleven : with •hot : btilb ehginUsv a iai'gei'nuiribdr with. Diesel 'and otlier 'internal cohibusit'lbit e'hgiries 7 -aiid'^.fif ty.Mvo' ' with' geared turbines. " •';•*.*■ ; *
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14190, 6 January 1917, Page 8
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180SHIPPING RECORD. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14190, 6 January 1917, Page 8
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