CONCRETE SHIPS.
FORTY" MORE' VESSELS ORDERED. lAustralian and N.Z. Cable Association.) ; WASHINGTON, May 16. The Shipping Board has authorised the construption of 40 additional concrete ships, costing 45,000,00 dollars. The shipyard m (which the Faith was built was put up within a week at a cost of £4600. The same yard for the construction of steel ships of the same tonnage— 6ooo dead weight— would cost £20,000 nad would require a year's time to erect. LONDON, March 20. The Alpha, a boat of concrete moulded dn iron framing, made her trial x trip on the Thames. She is a comparatively small craft, but is the forerunner of much bigger things. The ship is 40ft. long, Bft. 6in. beam, with hull l^in. thick, weighs 9 tons, makes 9 knots, and carries' 16£ tons. She is divided into three Water-tight bulkheads, fore-peak, , fore-hold, and. main-hold, and is capable of standing heavy seas and collisions. Yesterday the Alpha performed her trial trip with, an old motor-car engine of 25-horse power. In the immediate future con* crete coasters of 500 tons' register are to be afloat.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14608, 18 May 1918, Page 3
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