U.S. Ships To Be Adaptable For War
Received Thursday, 9 a.m. LONDON, Sept. 21. All new United States ships will include feaiures to make them readily adaptable as ships of war, according to the chairman of the United States Maritime Commission, Major-General Philip Fleming, who is in Britain studying Britiish shipbuilding costs. . He said that the 60,000-ton super liner The United States, normally to carry 2000 passengers, wTould include special features so that it could be transformed at, short notice into an armed troop carrier accommodating 14,000 troops. General Fleming said there were six new United States passenger vessels under construction with a subsidy of about 80,000,000 dollars. In addition, two trailer ships to carry freight wagons were contemplated as an experiment.
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Chronicle (Levin), 22 September 1949, Page 5
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