MORE MILLIONS
NAVAL CONSTRUCTION PLANS IN U.S.A. TREMENDOUS FIGHTING FLEET TOTALLING 272 WARSHIPS By Telegraph —Press Association. Copyright. WASHINGTON, August 30. After consulting President Roosevelt, Admiral Leahy, Chief of the Naval Staff, indicated today that the navy would probably seek an additional 200,000,000-dollar appropriation from Congress owing to the added cost of implementing the billion-dollar expansion programme. In an article in the “Army and Navy Journal,” Mr Claude A. Swanson, Secretary of the Navy, reveals that the fleet will comprise 272 fighting ships, totalling 1,517,480 tons, including 18 battleships, 18 heavy cruisers, 28 light cruisers, eight aircraftcarriers, 144 destroyers, and 56 submarines.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19380901.2.42
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 September 1938, Page 7
Word count
Tapeke kupu
102MORE MILLIONS Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 September 1938, Page 7
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in