The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

"marines, armed merchant vessels, ete. In addition the company built 155,106 'tons of new ships during the war. The only important district remajn- ing to be mentioned is that of Bar- row-in-Furness, which includes Mary- -port and Workington in Cumberland on the Irish sea. Barrow-in-Furness, which is 266 miles.from London and 84 miles from Liverpool, is really a great shipbuilding center. It turns out a much _ heavier tonnage than it is credited with in Lloyd's returns, for 'the simple reason that the fig- ures given exclude vessels built to the order of the admiralty for other than mercantile purposes, and Barrow is pre-eminently a warship-building cen- / } THE MARINE REVIEW By means of a patent lift-dock ap- raratus, vessels of 3000 tons displace- ment can be lifted in 35 minutes for repairs. The Barrow docks occupy 131 acres of water space and the entrance has a width of 100 feet. This company has. also carried through a number of successful amal- gamations. Most of the machinery for its ships, however, and a _ great part of its steel is furnished from the River Don Works at Sheffield, one of the biggest plants in that im- portant city. Vickers played an un- usually important role in the provi- sion 'of warships and war material. It is quite likely that the Barrow area will henceforth figure much more August, 1920 as mercantile . shipbuilders, though they reopened to meet the emergencies of the war. There is no probability that the Thames will seriously enter the lists as a building area for mer- cantile vessels on a large scale owing to its serious handicaps. It is clear from the figures givey in the foregoing that in spite of diffi- culties, the British shipbuilding jp- dustry is steadily recovering. At the end of March the tonnage under con- struction was 400,000 in excess of that building at the end of December and 1,140,000 more than was in building in March of last year. The returns do not take cognizance of ships be- tow 100 tons burden. Marine Review Strengthens European Service N ORDER to provide larger and_ better facilities of a permanent character for the growing requirements of our European division, the London office of the Marine REVIEW was moved on July 1 from 16 Regent street to 2-4 Caxton House, Westminster, Lon- don, S. W. 1. Correspondence for our Euro- pean office should be addressed to Caxton House hereafter, together with that for the affiliated publications of the Penton Publishing Co., which include the Daily Iron Trade and Metal Market Report, The Iron Trade Review, The Foundry, Power Boating and Abrasive Industry. : As a result of this change, greatly improved facilities will be provided for transacting all of the European business of the Marrne Review. Caxton House, which is one of the leading a block of the headquarters of the British Iron and Steel institute, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Institution of Civil Engineers, Insti- tute of Metals, etc. Within a very short dis- tance also are located the houses of parliament, British government offices and the offices. of many of the largest iron, steel, shipbuilding and engineering firms in Great Britain, together with the European offices of many large American iron, steel and machinery corporations, American business men traveling to England are cordially invited to make their headquarters at our London offices. During the coming sum- mer season, special facilities will be available for taking care of mail, which may be addressed in care of our European headquarters. Other arrangements are being made to look after the requirements of business visitors and we hope in the ' modern office buildings in London, heart of the Westminster marine and engineering district. is located iron, steel, It is within this will be considered as a personal invitation by any of our readers, who may be going abroad. friends or advertisers ter. The principal materials are near- iby, ore' of the richest kind being abundant, while the Barrow Hematite Iron & Steel Works, which com- menced in 1859, has 12 blast furnaces ranged in line close to the seashore. This is one of the largest steelworks in the country. Vickers, Ltd., is the largest ship- Builder at this port. The works of this concern is laid out in the form of a parallelogram about 100 acres in extent, with a frontage of about a mile to the sea, in two half-mile sec- tions. The works is equipped with railways and abundant electrical ap- | paratus for rapid production, while the launching slip in Walney channel is assisted by a 30-foot rise of tide which makes it peculiarly favorable for launching purposes. Twelve or fifteen vessels can be accommodated at one time and the works regularly employs something like 20,000 hands. prominently in turning out big occan- going steamers, as the demand for warships promises.to be on a much smaller scale tor some years to come. Where Naval Work is Done The exclusion of the Thames and the Lond6n ; district from Iloyd's list of principal areas is due principally to, the fact that the Thames is pre- eminently a government naval area. This district is, however, unfavorably situated as compared with the Glas- gow arid the Northeast coast districts by 'its distance from the steel: pro- ducing centers and from the fact that the scale of wages for skilled' mechan- ics is higher in London than else- where. In prewar days certain big shipbuilding companies appealed ~ to their workpeople to place them on equal terms in this matter with their competitors elsewhere. When the mien refused, these yards closed down - of U. S. Shipping American seagoing ships of 1000 gross tons or over registered for for- eign trade or enrolled for the coast- ing trade, according to the returns of the bureau of navigation, department of commerce, on June 1, 1920, num- bered 2801 of 10,681,025 gross tons, of which 1610 of 6,801,536 tons are Owned by the government of the United States, represented by the United States shipping board and built with appropriations by con- gress. To these larger seagoing ships, smaller seagoing vessels, the Great Lakes fleets, and vessels on rivers and canals may be .added, giving a, total of approximately 27,900 vessels of 15,850,000 gross tons under the Amer-- ican flag. The precise figures for smaller vessels will not be available until returns for the end of the fiscal year, June 30, are checked.