Admiralty Starts Building Programme
(Received 1 p.m.) RUGBY, March 22. 1 The Admiralty quickly put ships of the new programme in hand. Parliament passed the Estimates on Thursday night, and on Saturday morning contracts for some of the ships had been signed, and orders for some ships authorised last summer were also placed. Orders placed in the week-end include three cruisers of the Dido class authorised last year, and two ethers of the same class in the 1937 programme. Three of them will be built on the Clyde, one on the Mersey, and one on the Tyne.
Moreover, orders for machinery for two more to be built at Portsmouth and Chatham have been placed with private firms on the Tyne and Clyde.
One 23,000-ton aircraft carrier was ordered from Belfast/on Friday and an escort vessel ordered from Southampton at the same time.
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Northern Advocate, 23 March 1937, Page 5
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