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# 3 & Pe = 2 2 S Be SES F Re S & ee Re * * Se =e ee =e * * ‘* ee 4 3 ea during Standardization Trials When Making 22.2 Knots NT HOOVER Joyage /A\ug. 6 nsson ee Se a ee eee ee ee when Capt. Robert Dollar bought his first steamer, the NEwsBoy. ‘This vessel carried a crew of 11 men and was 120 feet long, 30 feet beam and 9 feet deep. The S. S. PRESI- DENT HOOVER, now lying at New York being groomed for her maiden voyage, carries a crew of 324 men, is 654 feet 3 inches in length over- all, 81 feet beam and 52 feet deep. On her sea trials she developed a high speed of 22.2 knots using 32,823 shaft horsepower. The esti- mated cost of this, the largest and highest pow- ered merchant vessel thus far built in the United States, is $8,000,000, representing with her sister ship, the S. S. PRESIDENT COOLIDGE, a total capital investment of $16,000,000, one- quarter of which must be advanced by the owner. Two more similar vessels are to be built in due course. The life of Capt. Robert Dollar seems to be without a parallel. He is now entering on his eighty-eighth year and as recently as July 15 made a public address in which he urged at- tendance at the coming convention of the Pa- cific Foreign Trade council in Oakland, Catit,, Sept. 14-18. Among other things he said, “Every man and woman in this country is either directly or indirectly interested in for- eign trade.” He is known and honored all over the world for his great work in building up trade. He probably has more influence 1n 5. &» PRESIDENT BOCs E are too apt to look upon the rest of the world as static, that we alone are progressive, constantly moving On and ever in- creasing our needs and standard of living. The changeless East is an outworn phrase. Our markets in the Orient will continue to expand and we must be adequately prepared. China than any other American. His deal- ings with the Chinese has always been based on a spirit of fairness and understanding and as a consequence he can have about anything he wants in China. In his eighty-seventh year he made his thirty-seventh business voyage to the Far East. So with an old Spartan at the head and an organization including 10,000 employes extend- ing to the four corners of the earth and on all the seven seas, there is reason for confidence that this newest and largest American vessel, pride of our merchant marine, has been put in capable hands and that she will be given every chance to make good. In the following pages will be found a record of this latest achieve- ment in American shipbuilding, which it is hoped will inaugurate a period to be known in history as the renaissance of the American flag on the high seas. OMER L. FER- GUSON, Pres- ident and General Manager, Newport — News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. un- der whose leader- ship this largest and highest pow- ered American merchant vessel has been delivered three and one-half months in advance of contract date MARINE REview—August, 19381