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5l| ar^uu c,ip Building Was Pioneer of |[findustries Which Brought Name of Manitowoc Fame In Commerce World' Oldest Industry of City Has Grown and Developed Into Mammoth Business That Adds Prestige to City—Home of Most Modern Plant on Great LakesShipbuilding furnished lhe real Mart for leadership in industry, bring the first industry of any outside prominence to the city in which Manitowoc engaged. From the earliest date of the city * history the name of Manitowoc has been associated with ship building and the passing years have brought with them a dewlopmcntofthc industry which today places the old time Clipper Cit in the forerank among bike ports where ships are builded.Today the plant of the Manitowoc Shipbuilding coi-por-ation is recognised os one of the most modern and Iks. equipped on the Great Lakes and is handling some of the target present day boats which are built. From a sm-i! ne-ginning in the construction of the old type fchooners, now allManitowoc' have been the product of the Manitowoc yards and during the war period the company built a number of vessels for the United State* Government and others for the Norwegian government and one boat a steel pasrenger steamer,theUUVCIDDnill nut o •---Nevada originally built for the Goodrich line was purchased by the Russian government and used in the war.Many Palatial Hunt* BuiltAmong palatial passenger boats which have been built in Manitowoc and carry the fame of the city to thousands of excursionists and travelers on the Lakes are the United States, later converted into a private yacht for Colonel Green, son of the late Mrs. Hetty Green, the wealthiest the United States; the Nevada of the Goodrichof the modern type ice-cmshcrsbut obsolete on ^Lakes', to the modern steel vessel which inow owned through purchase from Russia by the old. represents investment of hundreds of thousands of dollars, g|ac)i Boat line of lhe Marquette; the steamer Alabama may.he a far cry to the uninitiated but to Manitowoc people, of the Goodrich fleet, one of the ir it is but an incident of growth and developmentj keeping 1*CP - „,d others.MS S —•»development of shipbuilding and its great strides are a na- |n Virion to lt!) boat building plant which is equippedtural growth and familiar here.Early KeputatiProgress which lias come in the developmentI* Upheldof the which^upbuilding industry has but incn-ared the Prr,t'?clJ'h'^ Har.itowoc. among the first Wisconsin ports to beo-me known for boat building activities, has »heaya enjoyed andthere is today no industry that contributes a larger meas ure of advertising and prominence to the city by «Mon otthe standard of its products. The present plant of the Shipbuilding Corporation founded upon the Old Burger and Burger yards bears little resemblance to the early day plant and has far outstripped other Lake ports In ^tne^ An indication of the reputation which is enjoyed by the Manitowoc yards i. furnished by the fart_thatwithin.i briefjxiriodwith a steel floating dock 300 feet in length and every up to date equipment, the Shipbuilding Corporation has affiliated with it and closely allied the Manitowoc Engineering Works and the Manitowoc Boiler Work*, designing and manufacturing not only marine boilers but other equipment for vessel*. The Deisel engine, oil burning has been perfected and used by the company In many of its boats and, in fact, there is nothing in the line of modem building and equip-. ment which the company has not adopted.The Manitowoc Shipbuilding corporation Is known not i only to the Lakes but to ocean traffic and ha* laid the foundation for largely gr.nter development in future years all of which redounds to the advantage of Manitowoc and its productsBuild Yachts Too£ ..iirhreen months three large carferries-Che most modem . The Burger name, which figured so prm.unently in the ‘ Sd cJStTof their kind on the Ukes-havc sailed from eariv shipbuilding history of the city, is still identified with • JfiSKth« commerce of the Lakes. Two of these building here and the Burger Boat company enjoy, aKa were built fS t^rr'.Vareue7t..TmVtheVhirdl,,r the ^de re^uUllonloryacht‘c.^Uuction, a reputation for... i -• ,-^mI. moimnrnr 9turdinieeo nnd craftsmanship that bring;the firm. The company executed an order of six rum chasers .A^urAriior”une. the combined cost of the vessels mounting sturdiness nnd craftsmanship that brings many contracts to; inia a total that nears the $5,060,000 mark. At the pre^nt. ilocal companv is engaged upon a contract for aj for the government and during th« war turned out a tmmter I- • SSfcX JSftSE a cCSon Ship ,0. the earner | of submarine chaserswhich are ^11 jn ^John A X.ar« turned out here afcwy^rs ago talta company apecjalired in fine yacht.i andI but year ind is oi of « new of vessel, use of which is growing1 turned out several very fine examples of the boat builder art the lake* The K'lTng was equipped with unloading do-in this department. The company engages practically entire., of a new type which is aUoto he installed.h ^ °f lhe 0,d *Wrdbeing constructed.and is one on vice boat nowMany large freight boats find employment at its shops.
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Manitowoc Herald News
Manitowoc, Wisconsin, US
Thu, Apr 02, 1925
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