Photograph by M. Rosenfeld 



THF, FIRST FABRICATED SHIP FVF,R BUIFT 



With the launching of the Agawam at the Submarine Boat Corporation's fabricating 

 plant near Newark, N. J., on May 30, there was inaugurated a new shipbuilding method which 

 promises to revolutionize ship construction for all time. Fulton's steamboat, the Clermont, 

 on the Hudson ; the Savannah, the world's first transatlantic steamship ; the Merrimac and 

 the Monitor, first ironclads — all were milestones in maritime history. And now comes the 

 fabricated ship, also "invented and made in America." 



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