COLOSSAL SHIPBUILDING PROGRAMME
AMERICA'S WAR EFFORT.
(Rec. February 28, 8 p.m.) Washington; February 27. America has a colossal shipbuilding programme in hand. Within a few weeks' a great number of destroyers, merchantmen, and submarines will, be getting built at the Philadelphia and .Boston shipyards. Since November 1 the Government has converted a large barren island in the Delaware River into the biggest shipyard in the world, and also created a town of twenty thousand inhabitants, -on the island. This yard assembles the parts that have been manufactured at a thousand ether factories. It is anticipated that tho island yard will turn out fifty ships of 8000 tons each in 1918," and after September next will finish a merchantman every two days.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 139, 1 March 1918, Page 7
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