SHIPBUILDING
BUILDERS COMPLAINING
LONDON, July 8,
British shipbuilders are growing increasingly disturbed at the Admiralty's rigid shipbuilding policy, says the "Daily Herald." The industry complains that the shipyards are not being given any idea of the extent of the programme of merchant construction, and too many slow ships are being built. The Admiralty refuses to disclose the actual sinkings to the industry which has to replace them, and no "target" has been ftxed for shipbuilding to stimulate production. Critics among the employers and unionists consider that the Admiralty is too closely wedded to the idea of slow ships. The Admiralty's argument is that ships of high speed, such as are being built in American shipyards, would be largely wasted, because the British convoy system demands that the speed shall be that of the slowest ship—ten knots or less.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 9, 10 July 1942, Page 3
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138SHIPBUILDING Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 9, 10 July 1942, Page 3
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