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Description: | Concept: civilian morale, civilian personnel, industry, workers, shipping, railways Description: whole: the image is positioned in the upper four-fifths, held within a narrow black border. The title and text are separate and positioned along the top edge, in white outlined black, and in the lower fifth, in black. All set against a white background. image: a depiction of two merchant ships under construction by groups of workers in a shipbuilding yard, surrounded by scaffolding and cranes. Further ships can be seen sailing in the background. text: [Arabic text] RONALD LAMPITT [Arabic text] [Life in Britain today. Painting by Ronald Lampitt. A typical British shipbuilding yard. Britain is a maritime nation and world-renowned for her shipbuilding. The industry is concentrated in five principal regions - the North-east Coast, the Clyde, Belfast, Birkenhead and Barrow - with many other less important regions at various points on the coastline. With its expansion the industry has at the same time advanced with experience and research. Over ten years prior to the war British shipyards averaged an annual output of merchant ships of 759,000 gross tons. There are 120,000 workers employed in shipbuilding and ship repairs alone, without including the kindred trades associated with ships and the sea. The North-east Coast region and the Clyde yards are responsible for some 75 per cent of the total British output. On the stocks in the picture above is the shell of a merchant ship, gradually rising inside the framework of scaffolding. Cranes raise the huge steel plates ready for riveting or welding into place. Before it is used every plate is thoroughly tested. In the foreground is a nearly-completed merchant ship receiving a coat of protective base paint. Soon she will be launched and sent to the fitting-out basin, where the boilers, engines, steering gear, and other equipment will be added. After completion the ship will be taken out to sea for speed and durability trials and will then be commissioned for service on the sea-routes of the world with the completed merchant ship seen in the top left corner. Every type of ship is built in British yards - from the 85,000-ton luxury liner 'Queen Elizabeth' (the largest liner in the world), to the ocean-going tramp steamer which carries only cargo. Shallow-draught river vessels, cable ships and tugs, dredgers and icebreakers, fishing vessels and drifters, as well as special vessels such as refrigerator ships and tankers, are built on British stocks. During the war, warships of all types, from the 35,000-ton battleship seen above to the smallest motor torpedo boats, were built in British yards, and their construction, reliability and durability is unequalled. The world well knows and appreciates the quality of British ships - 48 per cent of Britain's output of merchant ships is built for foreign markets.] Object: ship, locomotive, crane, scaffolding | Subjects: | poster | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Lampitt, Ronald Publisher/Sponsor: Central Office of Information | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=5177... | Go to resource |
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