AMERICAN SHIP BUILDING

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11611, 10 August 1918, Page 8

AMERICAN SHIP BUILDING

JULY LAUNCHINGS. London, August 9. It is officially anounced that July launchings in the American yards were 67 steel ships of 435,344 dead weight tons ; 53 wooden ships, 187, 000 tons deadweight; three composite, 11,000'tons deadweight. During the same’" period 41 vessels of 235,053 deadweight tons were completed, of which 36 were of 217,053 deadweight tons, and five wooden of 18,000 deadweight tons. The launching exceeds the yearly pre-war output. A EULOGISTIC ARTICLE. New York, August 9. The New York Times, in an editorial emjibasising the spLndid work done by the United States by Mr Re ding. hop c s that his visit to England will be but a brief interruption to Ids extraordinary useful and valuable labours. Mr Reading has shown a remarkable genuis for the solution of business problems, and was largely instrumental in the splendid success of the co-orcliuation of the British and Americans in war efforts.