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���Cargo- Carriers in Embryo

Here we see the framework of some of the wooden ships that are being built for the French and Italian Governments in American shir>- yards up and down the coast

��Hull Nearing Completion

The art of building wooden ships was bidding fair to become com- pletely forgotten. Then the war came, and wooden ships once more came into their own as transports

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��� ���These are the barracks in which the men employed in the new Hog Island shipyard will be housed. The community is complete in every way. It has a Y. M. C. A., a postoffice, etc.

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