ONE=JOURNEY SHIPS
NEW IDEA IN UNITED STATES.
CONCRETE BARGES ORDERED IN BRITAIN. (By Telegraph—Press Association—copyright) NEW YORK, August 12. Mass produced “one journey” steel cargo ships will be used to convey war supplies to Britain, according to the columnists Drew Pearson and Robert Allen. The ships will be flat-bottomed, powered with motor-car engines and will carry a crew of only six, making onlj 7 a one-way trip. The ships will be broken up for scrap and the engines used for other purposes when they reach England. The British Admiralty has ordered in Britain ferro-concrete barges, with their ends shaped like those of a ship. Each will carry two hundred tons of cargo.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 August 1941, Page 3
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112ONE=JOURNEY SHIPS Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 August 1941, Page 3
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