UNITED STATES NAVY
STRENGTH DOUBLED IN YEAR WASHINGTON, November 27. The numerical strength of the United States fleet has doubled in the past 11 months, said the Secretary of the Navy, Colonel Knox, when addressing a Press conference. The new craft include 40 aircraft • carriers. Some of these are "baby flat-tops" converted from merchantmen. The fleets on all oceans now number 817 combatant vessels. Within the next fortnight new construction will also make good 21 vessels lost this year, bringing the total fighting fleet to 83S of all types from destroyer escorts to big battleships. Colonel Knox said that the actual doubling of the fleet within the year was completed last Wednesday, when the new aircraft carrier Wasp was completed, making 419 new warships completed, within 12 months. The present fleet compares with 344 combatant vessels at December 7. 1941.
" Although 1943 has been a bumper year in navy ship production," he said, '" 1944 will be larger."
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Evening Star, Issue 25034, 29 November 1943, Page 4
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