1,000,000 TONS OF SHIPS
CANADIAN BUILDING TWO STANDARD TYPES (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 10.30 a.m. RUGBY, Aug. 11. Some details of the Canadian shipbuilding programme were given in London by the Canadian Minister of Naval Services, Mr. Angus MacDonald, who stated there were about 1,000,000 tons of merchant shipping being built in Canada as well as some destroyers. The Minister said that the merchant ships were mainly of two standard types, of 10,000 tons and 5000 tons. The programme was undertaken in the early part of the year and the first vessel built under the scheme will be ready before the end of 1941. The whole scheme will come to maturity next year.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20631, 12 August 1941, Page 5
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1131,000,000 TONS OF SHIPS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20631, 12 August 1941, Page 5
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