WONDER SHIP IS H.M.S HOOD.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14840, 18 February 1919, Page 5

WONDER SHIP IS H.M.S HOOD.

Jan. 6.^ln, an. Vticle on. shipbuilding :tb : day the ' Sunday Observe^ istate's'. that, the tptai u"ujtbut'of the, United Kingdprn, during 1918, of both naval and mercantile ships', iwas 1545; ,vessel&; <>f , 1,871,176 tons and 4,349,260 horsepower. . • "Th,e, wonder work of |lie war perio<£% sava the , Observed, "ia to be found, not hi bnercantile shipbuilding, ; but inTnavfa,i and, above all things, m naval engineering. 'On;, the Clyde , alone '.'•during the 1 wa£ 484 vessels, 787,437 tons, were con-' strnoted as additional ships to the naval strength of the cquiitly. In this total are included no. merchant vessels by; tha Government, and ti6 general! s'er"- p vice trawlers, tugs, or handy" craft .'built on, Government order. The list, is, composed of battleships, battle cruiserV light cruieers, destrdyters-,! arid submarines; to-' gether with armed merchant crinse'rs ,' seaplane carriers, ',: inoriitord, inirife•sWeepers, those new 1 Vessels " khowiri, «las sloops, iwhich are really 'little lighter* than . cruisers' or . low-speed* "destroyers' j* gunboats, 'patrol, boats/ nospitaloiteamers and the 'IQ' boats; atidi . *B» boafe v >of which so little,, could be said whita the^ fwar, wag, on>- or' can even yef foe .said. The battle .cruiser Hood ' was.' the greatest ■of j all y our. mystery ;shipd. ■•JBhe aaidrthe Rodney .-wpujd' .have.! been, the greatest? surprise packages of the war. In epeed and gunpower they were. to have exceeded! anything afloat. Only the Hood, however, (will be- completed, as a great spiecimien of English., naval arphjtt-ecture. B(it it is reallyi m. iharine engineering that , the year ,1918 ,ajjd the. ■ war- f .pe/iod^ ,asj a .whole., have Weep The twelve months' . recprd/in jprodTiction ofships'^^chinery^is J&d,by the.WaU^ fiiid ,SJjtpway; Co. of , Wallsqnd^on.-.Tynft which |urned ouV enc-ines oi, 316_;296 but qtfyer; ftrms hajre turned out •machinery to. M a|nQi^JiS whujh ; 'wQtt\d be notablb m norni^J : ' The year,' 4916, k hpvveyef, /wa&jbfie' yjear of jjjpp higher esjb records; 'tne'"'Fairfield 'Cbriipa^vy- oh. tihe Clyide.alone producing marujie-propelr liog ''machinery - totalling^ 4^4s(J v horsepqiwiei*. , ..Tlija was the. veai ; when- high-" v power destroyers Aver'e/b^yig, turned 'oiit almost en masse by all firms for the purpose of hunting down German, submarines, and it 1 will live for all time m the industrial annals of the King-, ,'dom as a y^ar of 'extraordinary ship-* biii'lding activity/and; one which conmore th'ah any';bthet 16 isupremjacy at ' sea. which strangled Germany and cbttVpelled : h«l< to ory aloud for peace.' ? f ■»'■•■ '■■> >'-:*\hr : -..\\