One Hundred British Warships Being Reconditioned
(Rec. 9.50) LONDON, Sept. 18. Twenty-six destroyers and frigates, which have been-laid up at Portsmouth for periods up to three years, are to be brought forward for refit, says the Sunday Times naval correspondent.
They constitute one-third of the ships in the reserve fleet. A similar number of ships are likely to be brought forward at Devonport and Chatham.
Altogether, about one hundred ships are to be reconditioned by the end of the financial year.
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Grey River Argus, 20 September 1948, Page 5
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