MERCHANT SHIPS
CONSTRUCTION IN U.S.A. FIVE LAUNCHED IN ONE DAY. FOURTEEN KEELS LAID IN WEEK. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association Copylight) WASHINGTON, February 21. The Maritime Commission announced that five cargo ships aggregating over 50,000 deadweight tons were launched today in United States shipyards. Two ships of 10,000 tons each were launched earlier this week. The Commission added that 14 keels were laid this week, and it predicted that two launchings daily would be attained by May. The announcement follows reports that huge piles of crated war materials were piling up on American wharves awaiting urgently-needed cargo ships to transport them to the Pacific fronts. Therefore it is believed that the P re " sent bottleneck in supply shipments will shortly be broken.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 February 1942, Page 3
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