Vessels on-order but not yet laid down are not included in these figures; they totalled about 220,000 tons gross. The vessels under construction and on order at Dec. 31 last numbered 250, of about 977,000 tons,' compared with 197 vessels, of about 530,000 tons gross, at the end of 1995. The total for Dec. 31 last is the highest on record, with the exception of the last two years of the War and 1920 and 1921, It is interesting to recall that only about 40,006 tons of shipping was under construction in German yards at the end of 1932, while at the end of 1933 "ie total was about 90,000 tons, Referring to the outstanding ship Of the year, the report states that the passenger and cargo liner Pretoria, 16,000 tons gross, completed by Messrs. Blohm & Voss, Hamburg, is noteworthy. A twin-screw vessel, she is. provided with a high-pressure turbine installation of 14.200 s.h.p. steam being supplied by Benson boilers. Her sister, the Windhuk, was still under construction at the end of the year. The same yard is building a passenger motorship of 24,000 tons gross, for the "Kraft Curch Freude" (Strength through Joy) organization, and a twin-screw vessel of 22,000 tons, to be fitted with Diesel-electric machinery, is being built for the same organization at the Howaldtswerke, Kiel. Work for the whaling industry included the refinery Terje Viken. 20,638 tons gross, which was completed at the A. G. Weser yard, Bremen, during the year, while two more refineries, of 21,000. tons and~ 15,000 tons respectively, ure still under construction,
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