Britain Building 40 Foreign Ships

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 161, 11 July 1939, Page 2

Britain Building 40 Foreign Ships

At the present time British shipyards have under construction or on order for foreign owners over forty vessels of various types. They include destroyers, submarines, minelayers, cargo motorships, motor tankers, colliers, trawlers, whalers, tugs, dredgers 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 dredgers, 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 North-east 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 aro e» gaged on 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.