BUSY YARDS

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LX, Issue 66, 22 August 1939, Page 6

BUSY YARDS

SHIPBUILDING IN BRITAIN

FORTY VESSELS FOR FOREIGN COUNTRIES

(Prom a London Correspondent)

, At the present time British shipyards have under construction or on order for foreign owners, over forty vessels of various types. They include destoyers, submarines, minelayers, cargo motorships, motor tankers, colliers, trawlers, whalers, tugs, dredges, and motor torpedo boats. Clyde yards are building two motor tankers of 15,000 tons deadweight each for Continental owners, two destroyers for Turkey, and five dredges, three for the Soviet Government and one each for Greece and Iraq. Elsewhere in Scotland work is proceeding on a tanker of 12,600 tons deadweight for Scandinavian account and a trawler for France. In England, the Northeast coast is the busiest district so far. as foreign contracts are concerned, the yards there having nine orders in hand. Seven of these vessels —four whalers two motor tankers and a cargo motorship—are for Norway, the other two being a steam collier for France and a cargo motorship for Greece. Other shipyards in England are engaged upon six destroyers for Brazil, two destroyers, four submarines and two minelayers for Turkey, a salvage tug for Sweden, a fire-float for Persia and a number of fast motor torpedo boats for various foreign governments.