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j ( . llJ no SUM July 1; 1942 PUBLISHED FOR THE EMPLOYEES OF THE NORTH CAROLINA SHIPBUILDING COMPANY Vol I, NO. 2 rw 1 ' r-i 5 1 .J j$m M ' J "j j (. ,i " I Yard Has Maintained Steady Improvement Since May 1, only ninety days ago, we have done a lot of shipbuilding at this yard. Eight vessels have been launched and nine delivered, which is a considerable better average than was the case when the "North Caro line Shipbuilder" first went to press. For the past month and a half launchings have been taking place at weekly intervals and in July it is expected that the pace will be stepped up to one every six days, or better. Deliveries will necessarily have to be in creased to keep up the pace. As an illustration of how the employees have really put their back into building more ships faster since operations began at the yard, we are giving below a tabulation of the number of days it took to complete the the first fifteen vessels. Champagne from the hands of Marjorie Fletcher marks launching on Maritime Day. Nation Celebrates National to Maritime Day Coast Coast Great Britain, Russian Governments Extend Greetings On Occasion At one minute past midnight on May 22, Maritime Day the first of 27 ships slid down the ways in a west coast shipyard. Launchings, which were held in 19 yards on all coasts and the Great ' Lakes, continued through the day until almost midnight as one feature of the annual observance of National Maritime Day, as proclaimed by President Roosevelt. Of the total, three ships were launched by one yard, six yards launched two each and in 12 other yards there were single launchings. Several of the shipyards fol lowed the launchings by laying keels for new ships. It was previously announced that 30 ships would be launched on Maritime Day, however, so that" the rateof production would not be hindered, three ships which . were ready were launched in advance of the scheduled time, j .. ' . ; ; High ranking officials of , thet Navy, Army and Great Britain opined on this day in paying tribute to the shipyard and fac tory workers and merchant sea men who are building and sail ing the ." ships of our Victory , Fleet. ' : The Russian Government ex pended its greetings to the Amer ican. Merchant Marine and the ' American Navy on this occasion. In a letter to Admiral Emory & S. Land, Chairman of the United 'States Maritime Commission, Rear Admiral M. I. Akulin of the Russian Embassy, said: "I send . youf greetings and my best wishes for success in your work which is of such vast importance s to our joint interest. In this war against German fascism our sue r Continued on Page 3 GAS RATIONING The 0. P. A, has decided that - i t the original gas rationing pro gram was not stiff enough. Therefore, on July 9, 10 and 11 it will be necessary for all auto mobile owners to register for new "A" ration books, each cou pon on a which will entitle ' the prove, that his occupational driv ing is greater than 1,800 miles a year. Furthermore, he will be required to form a Car Sharing Club to drive three or more fel low employees to worjc NAME CONTEST We have received nu merous suggestions for new names for this pub lication some excellent, others only fair. How ever, due to the depletion iri the staff of the. paper no decision could be reached on a name change before we went to press. White House Says Shipbuilders Will Come Through WASHINGTON "The Amer ican people can be assured that the shipyards will do the job as signed to them," the White House said in a statement is sued May 16. The statement dis closed that the vast cargo-build ing construction program was on schedule. . ' It was understood that a shortage on tonnage will . con tinue to exist until sinkings throughout the world are brought under control and building gets into full swing. puring the first 130 days of 1942 the nation's shipyards de livered 120 new vessels, or 20 per cent more than were built in Name Keel Launching of to to Vessel Launching Delivery Total Zebulon B Vance 198 73 271 Nathanael Green 240 54 294 Virginia Dare 250 52 302 William Hooper 183 45 228 Daniel Morgan 186 39 225 Francis Marion 199 36 235 Joseph Hewes 188 39 227 John Penn 201 29 230 John C. Calhoun .207 25 232 Charles C. Pinckney 150 IB 168 John Cropper 115 18 133 William Moultrie 106 20 126 Thomas Sumter 95 17 112 Jeremiah Van Rensselaer 89 17 106 Artemas Ward 82 16 98 It certainly took a long time to build the first, three ships, but, as is usually the case, the first few are the hardest. -The rate of improvement looks pretty g doesn't it? ?ut some of our competitors have completed Liberty ships within two months from keel laying to delivery and who is there to say that North Carolina boys can't do what the West Coast boys can. What others are doing Oregon Shipbuilding took 253 days to . complete their first ship, 120 days for its 15th, and 46 days for its 40th. Our first ship took 271 days, our 15th 98bur 40th How many? - holder to 4 gallons of gasoline. ,In order to obtain any supple all o 194i This compares with meniai ration, an applicant mu3i a total or ill American mer chant ships reported sunk since Pearl Harbor. The United States, however, must build also to re place ships sunk under the flag of other United Nation..' that Vthere is no lag today in cargo shipbuilding, coincided with reports in informed quar ters that the War Production board had decided to slow down on construction of new war equipment plants. Indicating that a tremendous volume was now . coming from existing factories, it was ex plained that steel and other ma terials which would vgo into new factories were needed for im mediate arms production. If the shipbuilding rate at tained in the first 130 days were continued throughout this year the program would fall far short of the goal of 800 vessels total ing 8,000,000 tons for 1942, but the White .House said the peak of production had not - been reached and construction , was gaining momentum. Next year The White, House assertion! the goal has been set at 1500 aggregating 15,000,000 tons. ; Asserting that this country's ship shortage, dating from the outbreak of the war in 1939, had been aggravated due to the "far flung battle fronts oi the World war and to increased ac tivity of Axis submarines," the statement continued: "To offset this situation, cur rent reports by the Maritime commission show that American shipyards are building merchant vessels faster than ever before in the history of the world. , "Liberty ships are being built in less time originally allotted. Some shipyards are well ahead of schedule; others are on sched ule; few are behind, but ;are catching up rapidly. The overall average, however, shows that the program is on schedule. At first the task appeared fantastic, but: now records are being made that were once believed impossible." ' - . j eft
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