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560 She was the fourth tanker launched at this yard during 1920 and the twelfth -since the yard was established at Bath. One of the important deals of the past month was the sale of two 10,400 deadweight cargo ships made by the Skinner & Eddy Corp., to the United States Steel Corp. These ships are called Rosin Hoop and Rogsin Aparr, and it is understood that the Steel corporation paid but $144.23 per deadweight ton for them, although they were but a few months old. Furthermore, the purchaser was required to pay but $1,000,000 in THE MARINE. REVIEW Record of Ship Gains tonnage of American ships has increased nearly 10,400,000 tons or almost 500 per cent, since 1914. While the period involved is six years, the great spurt in Ameri- can ship construction covered only half that period. When the world war started, shipbuilding in the United States, «according: 40, a -. study... of America’s Merchant Marine, by the Bankers Trust Co., New York, was at its lowest rate of production in 17 years. For a year from the outbreak Seagoing OCEAN CARRIG@R LAUNCHED AT CANADIAN LAKE YARD Built at Port Arthur, Ont., these 4400-ton vessels are cut in two on Lake Erie and rejoined at Montreal cash, promising to pay $500,000 more when the vessels are actually delivered. The remainder will be paid in install- ments over a period of 10 years. This sale is considered important in view of the quoted prices made by the shipping board on the government boats which have now been formally offered for sale. The original sales offer of the shipping board provided that bids must be in by Sept. 1. Steamship peo- ple did not seriously consider this offer- ing as it. was obviously an effort on the part of the shipping board to determine what is the market for government ton- nage. If no sales can be made, prices will have to be reduced. of war, the American output was only 225,122 tons of all classes of ships in yards which had a building capac- ity of 750,000 tons. In the follow- ing year, ended June 30, 1916, Ameri- can production of steamships had in- creased to only 232,354 tons. Even when the United States en- tered the war in 1917, the building capacity of the American yards was still far below the output required, There were at that time only 61 American gshipyards which could build seagoing ships. Of this num- ber 37, or little more than half, were equipped for steel shipbuilding. These yards had a total of 162 ways, while October, 1920 24 wood shipyards comprised 73 ways. America’s great effort in_ ship- building came after 1917. So _ rap- idiy were yards created, when the nation set out in earnest to meet the world’s call for ships, that before hos- tilities ended the United States pos- sessed 341 ship plants for seagoing ship construction with a total of 1284 ways. This was more than double the number of shipways in the yards of all other nations combined. In 1917 there were only 75,000 men employed in the American shipbuild- ing industry. By September 1918, the number had been increased to 358,882. This new army of shipbuild- ers produced, in the year ended June 30, 1919, a total of 1107 seagoing ves- sels aggregating 3,746,216 gross tons, or more than 15 times the tonnage of American steam craft that had been built in 1916 when the nation began to speed up ship construction. New Ship for Alaska The first steel steamer, launched in Seattle since the close of the govern- ment shipbuilding program, was the 2250 deadweight ton carrier GrirFco which took the water on Aug. 18 at the yards of J. F. Duthie & Co. The Grirrco is a unit of the new fleet being prepared for James Griffiths & Sons, Seattle. The sturdy freighter was sponsored by Mrs. Albert V. Griffiths, wife of one of Captain Griffiths’ sons, who are asso- ciated with him in his various enter- prises. Early in September, the same yards will launch a sister vessel, the GrirFpu, the name being a combination of those of the owners and _ builders. The GRIFFDU was originally laid down for service in the Bristol channel but plans have been changed and she will be used with the Grirrco in general coastwise service along the north Pacific, includ- ing Alaskan and_ British Columbian waters. : The two new steel carriers are each of 2250 tons deadweight. They measure 220 feet between perpendiculars, with molded beam of 40 feet and molded depth of 21 feet. They are single screw and will be equipped with triple ex- pansion shipping board engines of 1450 horsepower each. Oil will be used as fuel. The machinery is set aft giving ample deck and hold space. The vessels will be fitted with towing engines of American Engineering Co. type. They will be classed to British Corp. and will hail from Seattle. Each has two large hatches, the general arrangement making them particularly adaptable for freight- ing lumber, ore or other bulk cargo. The Griffiths interests have just added the wooden barge Grirrson to their fleet and the new vessels will be used ex-