BRITISH FLEET
MANY NEW DESTROYERS (Rec. 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 8. Mr J. Dugdale, Financial Secretary to the Admiralty, told the House of Commons that Britain had disposed of 98 destroyers since V-J Day either by scrapping; sale or loan to foreign Powers, but 39 destroyers, infinitely better than those scrapped had joined the fleet in the same period.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 69, Issue 51, 9 December 1948, Page 5
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