FOUR VESSELS DAILY
AMERICAN SHIPYARDS OUTPUT IN JANUARY (British Official Wireless.) (Noon.) RUGBY, Oct. 16. An assurance that the United Nations could count on an average of four new United States cargo ships daily by, January, was given by RearAdmiral- Vickery, addressing the American Merchant Marine conference. This was not the maximum potential ‘ shipyard ’ 'Capacity" and 24,000,000 tons deadweight l of- neiV shipping v/ould be‘delivered" by the end of 1943. This figure could be'substantially' exceeded if the’'necessary materials' were' available.'
“Although we still have a long way to go before we have enough ships for victory, the problem of shipyard productivity, is as- good as'solved,” he said. Last month the shipyards built 89 per cent of' the Whole of the 1941 output.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20917, 17 October 1942, Page 4
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