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WOG ISLAND SHIPYARD,
MIRACLE OF INDUSTRY,
AMAZING ACHIEVEMENT
"JheJVIoral Effect of This Gigantic Undertaking on
the Germans Hastened Coming of Peace, Says
Former Fleet Corporation Head
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-GREATEST MARITIME MARVEL OF "THE AGES , .
t ;,, .. hhuoc rnuiYi awftimr iu tveer. o,uuu men bujjt
i" TJOG ISLAND, May SO, 1917 -tffftt hundred mid forty-six acres of
fm XX baanu marshland, mostly submeraed. and nroduetive of nothina save
pc&tilential mosquitoes.
Hoa Island. Man SO. 1919 The world's greatest ihimiard. with twentv-
- two ships completed and in service) thirty-four launched and fifty
- tit various staoes of completion on as manti uhinwavs. A comnlete
indtistrial city in itself, giving employment to 32,000 persons.
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Came 'the world war and the cry for ships to save civilization. Congress
rubbed Aladdin's magic lamp and genii in the form of American-engineering
skill worked a miracle ori the shores of the Delaware. Up
out of the marshes Hog Island was literally buildcd on piles.
(A project of greater proportions than even the Panama Canal, Hog Island
came into being through such master minds of business and engineer
c55 ing genius as Edward N. Hurley," Charles M. Schwab, Charles Piez,
Rear Admiral Francis Bowles, Howard Coonley, Frederick Holbrook,
Matthew C. Brush and many others.
xMr Hurley and Admiral Bowles belongs the greatest credit for the con
ception of the shipyard and terminal ,as it is today. Expansion of the
f - original plan into a $63,000,000 project was the result of the recom-
, , mendation of Mr. Hurley and Admiral Bowles.
I' 'Because of the moral effect this gigantic undertaking had on the Germans,
I Hog Island was the greatest .single factor in bringing the war to a
j close," says Mr. Schwab, former director general of the Emergency'
Vt , Fleet Corporation.
I '- - CHRONOLOGY OF A MODERN MIRACLE
LAUNCHING OF FIRST SHIP AUGUST 5, 1918
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September 13, 1917, contract signed for construction of shipyard and fifty
ways' and 180 ships.
September 20, 1917, actual construction of the yard begun.
February 12, 1918, in spite of the hardest winter in local history, the yard
' was 50 per cent complete and first keel was laid.
uguSt 5, 1918, the Quistconck, first 7500-ton ship built, launched .and
ennstenea by Mrs. wooarow Wilson, wiie(or the President.
Slay 30, 1919, total of thirty-four ship launched, twenty-two completed
Ha ,j. and delivered to shipping board, seven receiving their- fittings and
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)ne hundred and forty-five ships under order (contracts for twenty-tbee
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feirty-five 8000-ton, fifteen-knot cargo and passenger ships.
iiye hundred thousand tons of steel will be required.
Ninety million rivets will be driven.
LTijrty-eight steel mills are rolling the plates,
iifghty-eight fabricating shops making the punchings and forming the
ste,el.
hW hundred and seventy boilers will be used.
Steam turbines with an aggregate of 700,000 horsepower contracted for.
Ofiginal estimated cost of 7600-ton ship, $1,100,000.
Minimum fee to be paid American International Shipbuilding Corporation
""a for building each one, $41,000.
Origiriarestimated cost, of 8000-ton ship, $1,650,000.
Minimum fee for building same, $65,000.
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IN WORLD'S GREATEST SHIPYARD
Fifty shipways erected and 'seven 1000-foot piers, used for outfitting the
Hog Island ships, and a wharf 4000 feet long facilities which could
be converted into the greatest ocean rail terminal in the world; 32,000
men employed on the average, with a weekly payroll of $1,000,000;
3500 concerns in forty states furnishing supplies for construction
purposes; 250 carloads of material received a day; total expenditures
permonth, $10,000,000; eighty miles of standard railroad track in the
yard; eighteen miles of hard-surface roadway; 110,000,000 feet of
lumber used for .construction purposes; 150,000 piles driven, fifty to
seyenty feet in length; 120,000 feet of domestic water piping Installed;
ij 00,000'feet of high-pressure piping installed; 73,000 feet of sewers
installed; 3,000,000 feet of electric wire3 put underground; 20,000
shovels.-'used; 10,000 picks used; 165 automobile trucks; twenty loco
.motives;: seventy locomotive cranes; 460 freight cars; 80,000 electric
lamps purchased; 650 electric motors installed; 250 buildings erected,
putting twcnty-f.ve acres under roof; training school established, with
J60 instructors; Y. M. C. A., with auditorium seating 2000, built; bar-
Vi, ractis constructed xor ouuu men onu ouu guards, mso a moaern noiei ana
two large restaurants; lour lire ueimritnents, wmi sixteen motor'
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"HERE ARE THE SHIPS!"
HOG ISLAND'S ANSWER
TO DOUBTING CRITICS
In Spite of Most Adverse Conditions Forty-two Ves
sels Will Have Been Delivered at End of the
Biggest Shipyard's Second Year
TWELVE CARGO STEAMSHIPS BUILT THERE
HAVE TRAVELED TOTAL OF 85,507 MILES
tt COMPARED with the performance of the best yards. Hog
' Island shows up splendidly, and great credit is due men
and management. Hog Island ha3 suffered only when judged by
our needs during the war.
"At the end of its first two years, in September, Hog Island
will have to its credit the construction of a fifty-way yard,
delivery of forty-two vessels, the creation of a highly efficient
organization accomplished in spite of the most adverse condi
tions. Charles Piez.
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"It never can be done!" exclaimed the whole shipping world, aghast
at the magnitude of the Hog Island project.
Hog Island sat tight and carried on. Arctic cold and its snowstorms,
nor tropic heat and its mosquito raids, detracted not one whit from the
mighty machine that is Hog Island. Night and day the planks were laid
in the bridge of ships. Twenty months have passed, and now, thundering
out of Hog Island's silence, comes the answer:
"Here are the ships!"
Civilization's sky was clouded with the menace of disaster to the
Allied cause in the war, when in March, 1918, the German armies swept
like a tidal wave toward Paris and a decision for might over right None
knew then that, "with the help of God and a few marines" and no less
effective doughboys the tide was to be checked and the tables turned.
The Allied capitals were frantic. Could America get her men and muni- -tions
to the front in time? Then it was that the War Department made
its urgent appeal:
"Damn the cost! Build the ships!"
CALL THEM "THE PERFECT SHIPS"
Hog Island builded, and builded well. Its ships already have plied the
seven seas, and one of them was among the first flying an Allied flag to
enter a German port after the signing of the armistice. Seamen who have
sailed everything from schooner to giant passenger liner call them "the
perfect ships" of their class.
Their performances speak best for themselves. Here are the logs ,p
some of them: '"
nda Compnny Keel laid, April 29,
101S; launched. 'NAf toKeY" 22 ; trial
trip, March 1, 1010 fueltrered. March
4; sailed March 13 from' Philadelphia
with 300,000'bushels of rj'e; towed into
Plymouth, Ens., after being: disabled in
hurricane, March 2S (ship and cargo
claimed by steamship Kcndagcn Castle
for salvage; cargo discharged, and ship
put into drydock April 25. Total mile
age, 3000. ,
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trucks; thoroughly equipped hospital and ambulance service; street
railwaypnd steam railroad stations erected; cost of shipyard, including
terminal) $63,000,000,
Quistconck's Log
On February 12, 1918, the keel
was laid. Six months later, on
August 5, the vessel "was launched.
She made her dock trial on Novem
ber 3, and four days later was de
livered, with the highest rating that
the American Registry Bureau and
the British Lloyd's can give,
The Quistconck, under charter
for J. H. Steele & Co., of New York,
left Hog Island December 10, 1918,
for Norfolk, Va., where she took on
a full cargo of coal, and.on January
2 cleared for Cristobal, arriving
there January 10-. (Speed during
trip, 12.63 knots.)
Leaving Colon, Panama, in bal
last on January 18, the. Quistconck
arrived at New Orleans January 23.
(Speed, 11.4 knots,) On February
More than 100,000 persons witnessed the 'launching of the QuU'tconck,
Hog Island's first felilp. which was1 christened by Mrs. Woodrow Wilson,
wife of the President. On the launching stand In the foreground are
President Jand Sirs'. Wilson- and Rear Admiral Carey T. Grayson, the
President's plijsiclan and naval aide, watching the vessel take Iter
plunge Into (lie Delaware. ,-Ih the .6val Edward N. Hurley c chairman
of the United States shipping board
Keel to Cargo
14. she cleared New Orleans for
Genoa, Italy, with a cargo of gen
eral merchandise of 6080 tons, arriv
ing March 8.
April 5, completed discharge of
cargo, took on 250 tons of fuel and
sailed, for New Orleans in ballast,
arriving April 25; May 1, cleared for
Gibraltar; sailed from Norfolk for
Gibraltar; May 9, 110 miles east of
Cape. Henry at noon. Total mileage
to date, 14,56.4, ,
It is significant of Hog Island's
rate of ship production in that its
first ship was delivered within ten
months after the keel was laid, while
British shipyards today, once rated
the best builders, will not under
take to deliver in less than from
eighteen months to two years after
the receipt of' a contract.
Saccarappa, operated by BuII-Insu-lar
Line Keel laid .March 20. 1918;
launched August 24; trial trip Decem
ber 22; delivered December 30: sailed
for New York January 18: left New
York for Newport News February 2;
sailed for Hio de Janeiro with 7071
tons of coal February 7; arrived Rio
do Janeiro March 1 ; arrived Havre
Roads April 22. Total mileage. 0500.
Sac City, operated by National Ship
ping Company Keel laid March 11,
1918; launched September 30; trial
trip December 29; delivered January
4 ; arrived at Norfolk January 20 ; ar
rived at Montevideo March 22; hailed
for Rio de Janeiro for fuel March 28;
arrived nt Bnrcclona May 4. Total
mileage 11,783.
Sacandaga, operated by Wessell
Duvall Company Keel laid March 20,
1018; launched October 20; delivered
January 22; sailed for New York Jan
uary 26 ; arrived at Talacahuano, Chile,
March 16; arrived at Colon April 4;
arrived at Galveston April 14 ; left
for New Orleans April 15 and nrrived
April 10; arrived at La Palais, France,
May 7; arrived nt Falmouth May 14.
Total mileage, 12.5S2.
Saguache, operated by New York and
South American Line Keel laid, April
8, 1018; launched, November 22; trial
trip, January 20; delivered, Juuuary
20; arrived at Norfolk, February 17;
arrived at Antofagasta, March 0; ar
rived at Colou (return trip) March
28, leaving same night for Unlve&ton ;
arrived at (Jalveston April 3; arrived
at Liverpool April 30. Total mileage,
SS70.
Prusa, operated by Moore-McCor-mick
Company Keel laid, April 3,
1018; launched, December 23; trial
trip, February 2.-'. 1910; delivered,
February 27; sailed from Philadelphia
with meat enrgo for Uothenberg, Swe
den, March 13; struck submerged object
in the Atlantic, and arrived at Bergen,
March 31 ; arrived (iothenberg, April
14: drydocked April 21, and surveyed
by Llojds, who advised temporary re
pairs; nrrived nt New York May 18,
Total mileage, 7S0O.
Saplnero, operated by Frunce-Cau-
Sagaporack, operated by Nafra Line
Keel laid, April 1, 1018; launched,
December 20: trial trip. March 20,
1010; delivered, March 24; sailed from
Philadelphia with general cargo for
Marseilles, April 30; diverted and ar
rived at Antwerp, May 15. Total mile
age, 0050.
Saucon, operated by International
Mercantile Marine Company Keel
laid, June 0, 1018; launched, December
31; trial trip, March 30, 1010; 'de
livered, April 3; arrived at Gib
raltar, bound to Constantinople, May
10. Total mileage, 3200.
Saugerties, operated by Independent
Steamship Company Keel laid May 0,
101S; launched, January IS, 1019;
trial trip, April 7; delivered, April 11;
sailed for New York, April 12 ; cleared
from New York for Singapore, with
machinery cargo, May 10. Total mile
age, 300.
Saluda, operated by American Line,
I. M. M. Keel laid, April 22;
launched, December 31; trial trip,
April 14; delivered, April 18: sailed
from Philadelphia, with cargo for Liv
erpool, April 27; arrived, May 9. Total
mileage, 3355.
Saco, operated by Earn Line Steam
ship Company Keel laldt March 29,
1018; launcHed, December 30; trial
trip. April 15, 1010; delivered. April
10; arrived at Falmouth, May 13; ar
rived at Danzig, May 18. Total mile
age. 4407.
Saliale, operated by Nafra Line
Keel laid, April 15, 1018; launched,
December 27; trial trip, April 23,
1010; delivered, April 30; sailed from
Philadelphia for Falmouth with grain
cargo, May 23. Total mileage, 3207.
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