Clydeside’s Good Year for Shipbuilding
[British Official WirelessJ (Received 2.30 p.m.) RUGBY, December 28. Shipbuilding experienced a good year on Clydeside, which starts 1938 with 500,000 tons of merchant shipping on order, as well as naval work to the value of £50,000,000. During 1937, a greater number of cruisers was completed for the Royal L*.. Navy than in any year since the war. p--' Seven cruisers, nine destroyers, three submarines, three mine-sweepers and three motor torpedo boats, as well as various experimental craft, left the yards and joined the Fleet. This year, Tyneside, which has just benefitted by two cruisers ordered, worth £3,000,000, has more than 40 ■vessels of a combined tonnage of 530,000 under construction.
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Northern Advocate, 29 December 1937, Page 5
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