Keels for the Future

Last week in Quincy, Mass, the keel was laid for American Export Lines' Independence, biggest (20,000 tons) U.S. passenger liner to be built in a decade. She and a sister ship, the Constitution, will be built by the Bethlehem Steel Co. at a cost of $46,800,000 between them. They will carry 1,000 passengers apiece, and will be the first big passenger carriers to be air-conditioned from stem to stern. Operating between New York and Naples and Genoa, they will add 60,000 berths a year to Atlantic travel. They can be converted to troopships carrying more than 5,000 men each.

In Camden, NJ. the keel of another new liner was laid, that of the President Jackson, by the New York Shipbuilding Corp. The ship is the first of three $12 million, smokestackless streamliners for the American President Lines' round-the-world service.

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