FOREIGN SHIPS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 July 1939, Page 8

FOREIGN SHIPS

FORTY BEING BUILT IN GREAT BRITAIN. At the present time British shipyards | have under construction or on order, for foreign owners over forty vessels j of various types. They include destroy •' ers, submarines, minelayers, cargo : motorships, motor tankers, colliers, j trawlers, whalers, tugs, dredgers and motor torpedo boats. Clyde yards are building two motor tankers of 15,000 | tons deadweight each for Continental l owners, two destroyers for Turkey, and five dredgers, three for the Soviet; Government and one each for Greece and Iraq. Elsewhere in Scotland work i is proceeding on a tanker of 12,000 tons: deadweight for Scandinavian account• and a trawler for France.

In England, the North east coast is the busiest, district so far as foreign ccntracts arc concerned, the yards there having nine orders in hand. Seven of these vessels —four whalers, two motor tankers and a cargo motorship—are for Norway, the other two being a steam collier for France and a cargo motorship for Greece. Cther shipyards in England are en gaged upon six destroyers for Brazil two destroyers, four submarines and two minelayers for Turkey, a salvage tug for Sweden, a firefloat for Persia, and a number of fast motor torpedo i boats for various foreign governments.!