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Title: Seen in Germany
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Baker, Ray Stannard, 1870-1946
Subjects: Germany -- Social life and customs
Publisher: London, Harper
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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so long will science havea strong and faithful ally. IX HOW THE GERMANS BUILD SHIPS IX HOW THE GERMANS BUILD SHIPS The Vulcan Shipyard of Stettin THE Vulcan shipyard at Stettin is sig-nificant of the New Germany, — thenavy-building, ship-loving, world-tradingGermany which had its birth almostwithin the reign of the present Kaiser. The Vul-cans first vessel slipped from its cradle into theOder as long ago as 1852, at a time when theships of the Clyde and the Severn and of ourown Bath and Gloucester controlled the seas. Ger-many was not then a sea power, nor indeed a unitednation. She possessed few ambitions beyond theland limits of Prussia, and Bismarck and von Moltkehad only dreamed ot the empire that was to be. Formore than thirty years the ships from the Vulcanyards were few and small,— sometimes one or two ayear, sometimes none at all, and once, during ourCivil War, there were ten, although the tonnage ofthis entire number was less by far than that of manya single modern ship.
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Shipping the Rudder How the Germans build Ships 239 All this has now been changed. No longer mustGermany go to England for liners and warships.She has produced her own cunning ship-builders, mentrained in her own yards, and yet conversant withevery improvement known to the shipyards ofAmerica or England. Not only does she build herown vessels, but so eager is she for that self-sufficiencywhich marks every great and warlike nation that sheinsists that German workmen shall also make thesteel for the plates of her ships, and build the enginesand boilers, forge the great shafts, design the electri-cal devices, and decorate the interior with Germanpaint and tapestries. If we have war, says the Kaiser, and haveneed of ships, we must depend on ourselves, not onEngland. And so it has come about that Germany has builtsome of the greatest shipyards in the world: the* Vulcan at Stettin, the Schichau near Dantzig,the Germania at Kiel, and the Blohm und Voss at Hamburg. In the 13 years from 1882 t

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