SHIP BUILDING
NEW YARD OPERATING. Y “ On 16th August, in a shipbuilding yard which only seven months ago was a barren mud-flat, the first of the sixty 10,000-ton cargo ships ordered by Britain slid down the ways in San Francisco Bay,” says the New York Times. “ She was christened the Ocean Vanguard—as her name implies she is the first of many like her. “ Rear-Admiral Emory S. Land, chairman of the United States Maritime Commission, declared that the goal of the American shipbuilding programme is the • construction of 1200 merchant vessels by the end of 1943. He mentioned ‘ two ships a day.’ ”
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 63, Issue 4491, 17 October 1941, Page 6
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