SHIPPING TONNAGE
ALLIED POSITION MUCH IMPROVED STATEMENT BY ADMIRAL VICKERY. AMERICA TURNING TO HIGHER GRADES. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.55 a.m.) RUGBY, September 17. The United States is now switching to the building of Victory instead of Liberty ships, said Rear-Admiral Leroy Vickery, vice-chairman of the United States Maritime Commission and Deputy Administrator of the United States War Shipping Administration, in London. He said America was gradually turning to higher-grade shipping tonnage, with a greater carrying capacity and faster speed. Admiral Vickery considered that the production of yet another type of ship—Victory ships—would provide the United Nations with very important tonnage. “We feel,” he said, “that we have pretty well got to the maximum shipping production, which at the moment is in the region of 1,750,000 tons deadweight monthly. We might go to 1,800,000 tons, but now we are going to concentrate more on higher-grade tonnage, with a bigger carrying capacity. The shipping picture has been greatly improved and we can definitely say that the time when the war could have been lost through lack of shipping is past.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 September 1943, Page 4
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