MERCHANT SHIPS
VESSELS OF FAST SPEED. ESSENTIAL TO OBVIATE NECESSITY OF CONVOYING. BUILDING POLICY CRITICISED. i By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright» (Received This Day, 11.15 a.m.) LONDON, February 27. The Governments policy of building slow-specd ships was criticised by Lord Rotherwick. President of the Chamber of Shipping at the Chamber’s annual meeting. The policy, only just abandoned after 18 months of war, appreciated the need for a maximum of new tonnage and impelled the Government to order a large number of ships of slow speed, but it was little use building ships if (heir speed exposed them to enemy attack. Fast ships do two voyages for every one by those with slow speeds and greatly reduce the strain on the already overworked destroyers because they do not require convoying. Slow-speed ships should be diverted to less dangerous routes. Much must be done to speed up the handling of vessesls at ports. Lord Rotherwick claimed that the Government policy was moving nearer complete nationalisation of shipping.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 February 1941, Page 6
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164MERCHANT SHIPS Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 February 1941, Page 6
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