THE STATEN ISLAND SHIPBUILDING COMPANY The Pioneer Shipbuilding Company of the Port of New York is Doing a Larger Business and is More Prosperous Than Ever. (Readers of the 1919 PORT OF NEW YORK ANNUAL will well remember the fine description of the Staten Island Shipbuilding Company, and the beautiful illustrations that embellished it, immediately following and a part of the Staten Island section of that issue. If the points regarding this great company as presented below, therefore, seem to the reader to be meagre, we refer him to pages 166 to 171 of our first issue. EDITOR.) THE THE Staten Island Shipbuilding Company is unique in many respects. This company is the only shipyard in the Port of New York that is completely equipped within its own resources either to build or repair a ship without the assistance of any outside help. It makes all its own castings, engines, boilers and whatnot that enter into this important industry. One of the important new acquisitions of the past year was a 10,000-ton floating dry dock. With this new piece of mechanism The Staten Island Shipbuilding Company is able to dry dock almost any size ship that touches these waters, with probably the exception of a few of the leviathans. Six dry docks are now in constant use by this concern. The plans of The Staten Island Shipbuilding Company are so extensive that we would like to give a sketch of its future development, but we will reserve that for a later edition of THE PORT OF NEW YORK ANNUAL. A large addition to the Plate Shed at the Mariners Harbor plant was added during the past year. In this connection we might mention the new set of plate rolls that have been installed. In size they are identical with the ones used at the Hog Island plant. These rolls take a thirty-five foot plate. Two new table punches have also been added, one of them being double ended. Besides AIRPLANE VIEW OF PORT RICHMOND YARD OF THE STATEN ISLAND SHIPBUILDING CO., SHOWING BASEBALL OVAL |