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Seattle Yar AAW) Ship Builders in the Northwest Establish Several New Records During Past Few Weeks—First of Vessels Intended for Service on the Atlantic is Launched enjoying the greatest’ prosperity in their history. Tangible evi- dence of this fact was given a few weeks ago, when the first launchings during this period of activity took place. On Sept. 21, the Norwegian steamship Niets NIELseN was launched from the yards of the Skinner-Eddy Corporation at Seattle. She is being built to the order of B. Stolt-Nielsen, Haugesand, Norway. Two days later the American steamship CautTo was successfully sent down the ways at the plant of the Seattle Construction & Dry Dock Co. and will shortly be added to the fine fleet now operated by the New York & Cuban Mail Steamship Co. Each of these vessels establishes a new record for Seattle yards. In fact, several records attach to Niets NIELSEN, for this vessel was built more speedily than any previous product of Seattle yards, her keel having been laid last Pos sound ship yards are now THE LARGEST MERCHANT VESSEL EVER BUILT ON May. Nets NIELSEN is not only the first ship turned out by the Skinner- Eddy Corporation, and the first built at Seattle for foreign owners, but she is also the largest merchant vessel ever constructed on Puget sound. This vessel has a deadweight capacity of 8,800 tons, or 12,500 tons measurement. Her di- mensions are: Length, 423.9 feet; beam, 54 feet, and depth, 29.9 feet. Her sister ship, Hanna NIELSEN, will be launched within a month, by which time Niets NIELSEN will be ready for service. At the same yard eight or 10 additional steamers for various foreign and. Amer- ican owners will be built. Cavuto, which is a combined passenger and freight carrier of 7,500 tons, will be used between New York and Cuban ports. She is the first of two being built by the Seattle Construction & Dry Dock Co., construction work on Panuco being so well along that she will be ready for launching in about four weeks. 372 By RG Hil These vessels are each 368 feet jp length, with beam of 479 feet ang depth of 27.3 feet and speed of 12 knots, Cauto and Panuco bear the distinction of being the first vessels built in Seattle intended for operation on the Atlantic. The same yards have well under way a $1,000,000 freighter for the Lucken. bach line, New York, as well as a large fleet for the United States navy, foreign owners and others. Two steamers, be- ing built for Norwegian owners, flanked Cavuto as she glided into the waters of Puget sound. Cavuto was christened by Miss Dorothy Alexander, daughter of H. F. Alexander, president of the newly organized Pacific Steamship Co., which has taken over the coastwise fleets of the Pacific-Alaska Navigation Co. and the Pacific Coast Steamship Co. Mr. Alexander is today the most prominent figure in Pacific coast shipping, having risen from the president of a company operating two small steamships 10 years PUGET SOUND —From Webster & Stevens, Seaitlé