Plan for the Operation of the New American Merchant Marine (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Plan for the Operation of the New American Merchant Marine Address delivered by Edward N. Hurley, Chairman United States Shipping Board, before the National Marine League, Commodore Hotel, New York, Thursday evening, March 27, 1919. In this Address, Mr. Hurley, for the first time, Gives and outline of his proposed plan for the ownership and operation of the vessels built for the government by the United States Shipping Board. The first public address that I delivered as Chairman of the United States Shipping Board was before the National Marine League about one year ago. At that time the world war was at its lowest ebb insofar as the Allies were concerned. The Cambrai battle had been fought and lost by the British; the French had been driven back, and all the indications were that the submarine would continue sinking more ships than the world could produce, which meant that Germany´s ruthless submarine warfare would succeed in the effort to starve Great Britain, and that the world itself would face the disaster of a German victory. At no time during the bitter struggle was the outlook more black for the Allies. Then it was that Mr. Lloyd George issued an appeal that came to us clanging like a bell. It was "Ships, ships and more ships" - a strident call that rang out a warning to the world that if the war was to be won we must have the ships and have them quickly. At the time of my last address before this body, the present Shipping Board, which had been organized little more than half a year before, had by dint of unexampled effort added 81 steel and wood ship-building yards to the small nucleus we possessed at the beginning, and, had expanded 18 other yards. In these new and expanded yards we were then building ships on 235 launching ways. Our Strength in Ship Production. At the time of the signing of the armistice, we had 341 shipyards practically completed and a total of 1,284 launching ways. This is more than double the number of yards owned by all of the rest of the world combined. On March 1, of this year, the present United States Shipping Board completed the first year and a half of its existence. During those eighteen months it has added to our merchant marine a total of 619 wood and steel vessels aggregating 3,640,406 deadweight tons. This is a world record in construction. It needed to be. If Great Britain had gone under, the war would have been ended before we could have gotten into it. It was during those dark days that it was stated in the House of Commons that if submarine losses continued to be sustained without replacement, Great Britain would be in deadly danger within six months, and ruined in nine. Lord Northcliffe, who knew the seriousness of the situation, and delivered a number of speeches in many States urging the great necessity for ships, was here at that time and called on me frequently to find out what progress we were making. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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