ADMIRALTY ORDERS
NAVAL PROGRAMME. VESSELS BUILDING. Shipyards Busy On New Warships. (British Official Wireless.) Received 1.45 p.m. RUGBY, Feb. 4. The tonnage of vesesls under construction for the Admiralty in private yards in Scotland amounts to 65,562. The vessels include three cruisers, 14 destroyers, and two submarines.
Yards in the north-west of England are building 89,313 tons, including one capital ship, two aircraft carriers, and eight submarines. Tyneside and North-eastern yards are executing Admiralty orders totalling 110,805 tons, including one capital ship, one aircraft carrier, four cruisers, and eight destroyers. One cruiser of about 10,000 tons is building at Belfast, While four destroyers and other light vessels, amounting in all to 1169 tons, are under construction at Southampton, Cowes, and other yards in the south.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 352, 5 February 1937, Page 5
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125ADMIRALTY ORDERS Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 352, 5 February 1937, Page 5
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