The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 15, 1917, Page 17

STAR—SATURDAY, SEPT. 15, 1917. PAGE 17 » | ¢ World’s Record Broken Here by Speed | in Construction of Fine 8,000- Ton Liner PugetSound Bridge and Dredging Co. Engineers and Constructors DREDGING, HARBOR IMPROVEMENTS, BUILDINGS, BRIDGES, DAMS, RECLAMATION. KING COUNTY COURTHOUSE ELKS’ CLUB HAMBACH BLDG. Pictures show one of the Skinner & Eddy ocean liners in the making, and the finished product The Jeanette Skinner, launched | fm the record-breaking period of 78 days after her keel was laid, and the Neilsen ners are of this type. The Jeanette Skinner is an $,000-ton ship, 423 feet 9 inches long. It was launched in July, and was the venth to go down the ways of this well-known shipbuilding PEED! It is the keynote in the needs and demands of the government of the United States in its mam- moth shipbuilding plans against the enemy. } And speed is the slogan at Seattle shipy ards—speed and quality. | Given the needed impetus during the war, Seattle, favored by natural location, is destined to remain per- ay manently one of the world’s greatest shipbuilding centers. Breaking the world’s record in the construction & of an ocean liner this summer, building an 8,000-ton vessel in 78 days, is but one of the many notable evi- ; ences of the facilities for shipbuilding this city enjoys. SHIP BUILDERS SPECIALTY, Four- and Five-Masted Semi-powered Schooners — Six Vessels Completed, Six on Ways and Material Accumulating for Eight Additional. This feat was accomplished with the Jeanette Skinner! of @t the Skinner & Eddy yards yards and at many of the new ones, there have been con- , ir oye . > y =. During the last 12 months, 16 shipyards have located, tinuou s, day and night, so plentiful has been the work CAPACITY, ONE VESSEL PER MONTH ¥ Jn Seattle, and older yards have expanded Approximately In add 1 to these vast private rprises, the Bremer- 4 | * 15,000 men are employed in this industry, compared to 3,500 ton navy yard, almost within a stone’s throw of Seattle, | | @ year ago or so. And while shipbuilding has thus, with/| figuratively speaking, has also been building vessels. | incomparable speed, grown so mightily, it has done so with- The distributing center for the greatest lumber district in| > out impairing other industry. the world, Seattle naturally falls heir to the tremendous bus- Not alone have local yards built for the American mer-|iness due to a revival of wood-shipbuilding. To Seattle and! chant marine, but also have filled contracts for foreign na-|the Northwest, the government looked particularly when the ( ; tions. Norway, France, and even Great Britain have been! giant s g plan was evolved by which the Atlantic ‘ J the Cunard company contracted to have one of its famous But Se Fi t to rest on wood-ship laurels : Y e7 q ry Cunarders built elsewhere than in England. Skinner & Eddy alone. It has ¢ ully with aha fey ion President Secretary Vice-Pres. & Treas. es secured this contract , : f the wor steel « 1ction, and so naturally is it The Seattle Dry Dock & Construction Co. has not only ed for this i ry tl nore than mere wilt for the merchant trade, but also several submarines and talk bel hind ) n ready to develop a ther ships for the government. steel s of several well-known At the Ames yards, at the Duthie yards—at all the old magnates i | | J. F. DUTHIE & CO. t SHIPBUILDERS ‘ and ENGINEERS