STANDARD SHIPS
AUSTRALIAN BUILDINCi PLANS OUTPUT OF TWELVE ANNUALLY. IN ADDITION TO NAVAL VESSELS. I (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright} MELBOURNE, July 8. Orders have been placed under the Commonwealth's £6,000,000 shipbuilding programme for eight merchant ships, Senator Mcßride, the Minister of Munitions, said today. When full production is attained a minimum of 12 standard merchant ships, in addition to naval vessels, wil 1 be built annually. In addition to the standard ships, two not of standard type, primarily for the transport of iron ore, will be built. The keel of one of these is now laid, and when the two are completed work on standard ships will proceed in the same yards. The first keel of a standard vessel will be laid in New South Wales this month. Four other ships will be begun in different yards in September.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 July 1941, Page 5
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