THIRTY-TWO WARSHIPS
U.S. BUILDING PROGRAMME FULL CAPACITY OF YARDS COMPLETION THREE YEARS EXPENDITURE" £47,600,000 By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Washington, June 15. The Secretary of the Navy, Mr. C. A. Swanson, formally announced a £47,600,000 naval building programme, under which it is intended to put 32 new ships on the water in three years. President Roosevelt had agreed to allocate the funds out of the 3,300,000,000 dollars public works appropriation, and “is anxious to have the work done as soon as possible, ’ Mr. Swanson said, adding: “We will build to the full capacity of the shipyard facilities as quickly as possible. We want to put people to work at shipbuilding, where 85 per cent of the expenditure goes to labour.” The programme calls for 20 destroyers, of which 16 are in the 1500-ton class and four in the 850-ton class, two aircraft carriers nqt exceeding 20,000 tons, four 10,000-ton six-inch cruisers, four submarines and two gunboats for Chinese waters.
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 June 1933, Page 7
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