CAPITAL SHIPS
CONSTRUCTION IN BRITAIN. WORK FOR THOUSANDS OF MEN. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. February 22. The two new battleships of the 1938 programme which are to be built in northern shipyards will be named Lion and Temoraire. The Lion will be built at Walker-on-Tyne by Vickers Armstrong on the slip vacated by the launching of the King George V and the Temeraire at Birkenhead by Cammell, Laird, on the slip which on May 3 will become vacant when the Princess Royal launches the battleship Prince of Wales. Both vessels will be of 40,000 tons.
About 3000 men will be directly employed on each ship for more than three years, and subcontracts for fittings to be carried out in various parts of the country will account for the employment of many thousands more. It is estimated that the orders for the new battleships represent £12,000,000 in wages for the next 40 months.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 February 1939, Page 5
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