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1 ! v. L t-s. sir 7 aces April 1, 1943 PUBLISHED FOR THE EMPLOYEES OP THE NORTH CAROLINA SHIPBUILDING COMPANY VoL 1, No. 8 PREPARING TO BUILD 60 -2 VESSELS YARD IT 1 - THE C-2- Nearing completion of its first three contracts for a total of 90 Liberty ships, the contract for 60 of the C-2 type vessels, similar to the one shown above. The ship, propelled by excess of' 14 knots and is somewhat larger than the Liberty freighter. YARD TIES FOR FIRST IN U. S. Cuts Ship Production Time To 38.2 Days In February One of the three best produc ers of Liberty ships in the coun try! ; That's the ranking the yard gained during February as it sent nine more ships down the ways ; to tie two West coast yards -Oregon and California for first place in ship production per way. In addition, we were second only to Oregon in time from keel laying to delivery, of ships. The North Carolina yard's aver age for the nine new ., members of the Victory fleet was 38.2 days each, but .3 of a day be hind the leader. However, as we enjoy new pride in our production record do not forget this: The; closely competing yards of the Pacific coast are making rapid strides to increase pro duction and by only hard work will we maintain our high place. Furthermore, our production speed slipped a -cog in March because of so many rainy days. Remember; this "Liberty Ship League'' of the nine outstanding yards is a fast one. Like a major league baseball -race, let a first division club-which : we are- slip and it soon finds itself slid- ing aown in uie sutimiugs. -Despite the fact. February has but 28 days, the yard s produc tiori record during that month was the best" to date. The best : time on; individual ships was on HullNo. 67, christened the Ed ward B. Dudley. It was launch ed 27 days after keel laying and delivered to the Maritime com- " mission eight days later for a total of 35 days. This-production record indi cates that there are mighty few of us who are not putting our ; (Continued on page 5) Iff 4 . - . . ...... .. , iii riiiiri'-'iiiiiiiliri 1 1 in mi r 1 1 "" r-"-" " Employees, Company Donate $25000 To All Departments Help Make Campaign In Yard Success As we go to press, the annual War Fund campaign of the Wil mington chapter of the Ameri can Red Cross is nearing com pletion with every indication that the yard's participation will be as successful as the part it played in the Community Chest drive last year. i With some reports still to be received, officials and employees of the company have donated $20,000. In addition, the com pany itself gave $5,000. As was explained at the time of the Community Chest cam paign, the Red Cross financial ef fort will be the only one besides the Community unest Fund to be conducted in the yard this year. -v , Donations from practically everv deDartment of the yard have been most generous with all welcoming the opportunity to help this great American relief (Continued on page 6) Desnite a severe, iolt to our pocketbook by income tax pay ments early last month, more than 90 per cent of us continued to buy War Savings bonds to keep the blue Minute Man flag waving over the yard. During the week ending March 15, 91.1 per cent of the employees were purchasing bonds on the systematic payroll ; deduction nl an. This was a slight increase from the previous week but with tax payments out oi tne way, the yard should soon reach, if not pass,v the 95 per cent mark its new bond effort goal. The latest report available at this- time shows eight depart 91.1 Per Cent Of Employees Buying War Bond Red Cross Fund Dietitian The employment of Miss Catherine McCown as dieti tian for their cafeteria here has been announced by Crot ty Brothers, Inc. She will be in complete charge of the serving and handling of food on the counters and will also be available to suggest or pre pare any " special diet for anyone employed in the yard on recommendations of Dr. Davis or Dr. Thompson. Quicker Assembly Simplification of assembly will lead to a greater reduction in the average keel-laying to launching time. Keel-layings in some yards no longer consist of the laying of a part of the keel. but rather of the whole bottom of a ship. Placing the stern frames on a hull at the same time the afterpeak is placed is another shortcut used, said the New York Times. ments are "in the red" while 13 have 100 per cent participation. ? Below the 90 per cent mark are the Tabulating Dept, Watch men and Firemen, . Machine Shop, Welders, Steam Engin eers, Dormitory, Pipe Covers and Welding Training. Their percentages of purchase range from 88.8 to 4.3. Some of these groups - were formerly among those "in the blue", but have slipped in recent weeks because of negligence and a decrease in their v interest in the War bond buying campaign here, 1os pull away from the lower part of the weekly list isn't hard. As an example, the yard is now preparing to fulfill steam turbines, has a speed in J. R HAUGHTON WINS BIG BOND First In Suggestion Con test During Past Month With many suggestions com ing in daily, interest in the Sug gestion System continued to in crease throughout the yard dur. ing the past month with J. Ray mond Haughton, 68173 of the Shipwrights Dept., winning the first award War bond of $100. ' Haughton led the field with a proposal calling for the use of a hydraulic jack for pulling in shell to the second deck. His suggestion was No. 3481; Second ' place winner was. Jim Mercy, 68518, also; of the Ship wrights, who won i a $50 War bond with four suggestions, Nos. 2139, 2104, 2141 and 3239 ; deal ing with smoke stack bracket, engine room staging, skylight staging and deck house bracket. Four men tied for third place with each receiving a $25 War bond. They are E. H. McKenzie, 68027, Shipwrights, Suggestion No. 3473, dealing with inside (Continued on page 6) Blue Print deDartment hnd nn average of but 77.7 for the week ending March 1 but 14 days later it climbed to 94.4. I Hundred ner cent rienart. ments on March 15 were Time Study, Treasurers staff, Hull Outfittine. Joiners. Bond Dp- nartment. Comntrollpr'a sfjff Time Keeping, Auditing and Bookkeeping, Purchasing, Ad ministrative. Hull Construction JLayoff and Janitors. Not onlv are they leading the yard, but they are also increasing their percentages or allotments. As an outstanding examnle. Time Study tops all with 19.9 per cent at this writing. CONTRACT LET FOR 36 MORE LIBERTY SHIPS C-2 Type Larger And Much Faster Than Liberty Craft With the 83rd Liberty ship scheduled to be launch ed early in April, the yard is nearing completion of its first three contracts, which called for a total of 90 ships, with the Maritime commis sion. Some months ago, be cause of our good record both as to speed and qual ity of vessels produced, the Maritime commission ap proached us to ascertain if we would be interested in building a larger and faster ship. Without' hesitation, the answer was given in the af firmative and the yard nego tiated a contract for 60 of the C-2 type cargo carriers. Faster Ship The C-2, propelled by steam turbines, has a speed in excess of 14 knots and is considerably faster than the Liberty ship. Its overall length is 459 feet and three inches and its length be tween perpendiculars is 435 feet. The beam is moulded to 63 feet and the depth to shelter deck is 40 feet and six inches. The ship will be quite similar to those built by our parent yard, the Newport News Ship building and Dry Dock company, before the war. During the time required for the engineering and purchasing tor these new long-range ships to be completed, the yard will build 36 additional Liberty ships. Thus the conversion from one type to another will not be ef fected until later in the summer. Lengthening Ways Work is already miderwav to lengthen the ways to take care of tne larger ships: Additions are beine made to the Machine shop and other additional f acili- . .'... .... ties will be installed to carry out the construction of the new ships. The award of the contracts for the 60 C-2's and the 36 addi. tional Liberty ships may right fully be considered another mile stone in our short but highly productive history. Looking back to the start of the yard in February, 1941, to the present time, we have come a long way and we welcome the new assign, ment from the Maritime com mission. The place we hold in turnisning snips for the t na tion's war-time Merchant Marine is ; a commendable one and the new task offers greater respon- si uuiues ana opportunities : as snipouiiders. ,, A ton of waste paper will pro duce 47,000 boxes for small arms ammunition, 3,000 boxes for aero-cannon shells, 1,000 packing cases for two pounder shells, cr 1,500 shell containers, so save it!
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