ADMIRALTY ORDERS
SHIPS UNDER CONSTRUCTION TWO SUBMARINES INCLUDED (Britisii Official Wireless! RUGBY, Feb. 4. The tonnage of vessels under construction* for the Admiralty in private yards in Scotland amounts to 65,562. The vessels include three cruisers, 14 destroyers and two submarines. The yards in the north-west of England, according to information in a parliamentary answer, are building 89,313 tons, including one capital ship, two aircraft carriers, and eight submarines. The Tyneside and the NorthEastern yards are executing Admiralty orders totalling 110,805 tons, including one capital ship, one aircraft carrier, four cruisers and eight destroyers. One cruiser of about 10,000 tons is being built in Belfast, while four destroyers and other light vessels, amounting in all to 11,169 tons, are under construction in Southampton, Cowes, and other yards in the south.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23108, 6 February 1937, Page 13
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