Following on n period of depression, there islam upward trend in the activi of several Bulish "shipyards: "One. of the best-known British shipbuluers. Messrs Harland & "Wo Tide have hast issued. hele shipbuilding out Put" figures for the: best sear. The. total {hein combined yards'at Betfst, Gtssgow and London, wes "W8Sie" fons, This isthe ems hanest evel for the ast sight years, Wille the machinery output at 260235 hors power Is "a record one for the firm. Tu. the Clyde 6000-ton vessel, built to carry paper from' Newfoundland to the United Kingdom, was launched in November, while in the same month a Glasgow firm was commissioned to build two tankers of 16,000] tons each for continental powers, Refore the! end of the year six vessels are duc to bel launched "by" C'yde. shipbuilders, and their tonnage will bring. the output for the river this year to over 460,000 tons—the best since 1090," Shipbreaking isin many ways a constructive industry, and the Berengaria, which recently arrived at Jarrow, is the sixth ship to. be broken up there ili four years, The] strap metal will become raw material Yor other, finished products, and the demolition this ship of 82,000 tons the biggest ship in the World over broken up for serap_metal—will "give direct "employment to. many men, Ht will moreover feed other industrial enterprises which have been started in the Jarrow istrict. Slee! tubes, as well as. castings for! oilway purposes, are only some of the many new sections of steel "production which have teen "started there. Not more than 15 per cent. of the work of these new industries occasioned by the British defence programme, and all the machinery installed "is equally serviceable for general purposes,
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