SHIPS ADAPTABLE FOR WAR USE: AMERICAN PLAN
LONDON, September 21 (Rec. 11 a.m.). —All new United States ships will include features' to make them readily adaptable as ships of war, according to the chairman of the United States Maritime Commission, MajorGeneral Philip Fleming, who is in Britain studying British ship-build-ino' costs. He added that the 60,000-ton super liner, “The United States,” normally to carry 2000 passengers, would include special features so that it could be transformed at short notice into an armed troop carrier with accommodation for 14,000 troops. General Fleming said there were six new United States passenger vessels under construction with a subsidy of about 80,000,000 dollars. In addition two trailer ships to carry freight wagons were contemplated as an experiment.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 22 September 1949, Page 5
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