Sixteen Vessels and $8,000,006
Cruiser in Hand More than 2,000 workers are busy in the Naval Ministry's Kiangnan Dock, Kiaochangmizo, carrying out one of the heaviest shipbuilding Programmes in the history of the With its dry dock fully occupied by two gunboats and a Customs float for repairs, the entire waterfront of the shipbuilding works 1s crowded with crane posts, keels and half-completed hulls. There are altogether sixteen vessels under construction, ranging from 300 tons to #,000 tons. Three of the vessels are being built for the Ministry of Navy, while the remaining are for the Customs authorities who will use them for patrol duties "along the Yangtze and the China coast.
Except for the 3,000 tons' cruiser which will be launched on the National Day next year, all the fifteen fare to be completed in ten months. Gmeials of the Dock expect to see several interesting launching ceremonies within the next few months.
A visit to the Dock reveals an teresting scene the like of which is seldom seen in the works in any other season. With the construction work of the sixteen vessels in full Swing, the waterfront gives a complete illustration of different stages of ship building, from the time of ing to that of launching.
Fully armed police, marines and sailors are seen mingling with the workers. Works supervisers and engineers busily ent kinds of machinery: functioning W Stiga defen those who pas by the Lieut. Wang. Chih-kuang, who went to Japan two years ago and Darticipaied in the supervision. the construction of the Ning Hal, China's newest cruiser built [Sapan,, personally attends haliding wore of the Ping Hi to the
ister ship of the Ning. Hai.
Ning: Hair which went down to the south recently, ie. being moored Alongside the wharf of the Dock.
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