Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1900 — Shipyards in Germany. [ARTICLE]

Shipyards in Germany.

There are thirty-nine shipyards In Germany, employing altogether nearly 50,000 men, and together they constructed last year 528 vessels of all kinds for the navy, the merchant marine and for river traffic of the larger description. Of these yards five are used for the construction of naval vessels, having an aggregate capacity for the simultaneous construction of over forty of the largest ships,-twenty-eight torpedo destroyers, and thirty torpedo boats.