FIVE SHIPS A DAY
PRESENT OUTPUT IN UNITED STATES. REPLY TO NAZI CLAIMS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April 26. The chairman of the American Maritime Commission, Rear-Admiral Land, stated in Brooklyn, New York, that' the Allies had paid, and would continue to pay, heavy toll to U-boats. He denied a German claim that Üboats had sunk 30,000,000 tons of United Nations shipping, and denounced the German claim about a shipping crisis as “fanciful and exaggerated.” American shipyards today, he said, were turning out five vessels each 24 hours. Shipbuilders were building more than twice the number of ships Hitler said could not be built. “The Nazi naval chiefs overlooked the facts that, in addition to increasing ship production greatly, we took over about 1,000.000 tons of ships interned in our ports, and that we have salvaged, repaired and reinstated considerable tonnage that was considered economically unavailable in peace time,” Admiral Land said.
American shipyards would build nearly 19,000,000 deadweight tons of new vessels this year. They had the capacity to build 20,000,000 tons a yeai’ as long as the need existed.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 April 1943, Page 3
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