CANADIAN SHIPS
Big Building Programme Under Way RUGBY, August 12. Some details of the Canadian shipbuilding programme were given in London by the Canadian Minister of Naval services (Mr Angus MacDonald), who said that there were about 1,000,000 tons of merchant shipping being built in Canada as well as some destroyers. The Minister said that the mercha t ships were mainly two standard t'’pes, of 10,000 tons and 5000 tons. The programme was undertaken in the early part of the year and the first vessel built under the scheme will be ready befo.: the end of 1941. The whcli scheme will come to maturity next year. Mr MacDonald said that Canada, having started in the war with 13 ships and 1774 officers and men, now had over 22,000 personnel and about 250 ships, including three armed merchant cruisers and 13 destroyers as well as many corvettes and minesweepers. He disclosed that the Canadian irivy had provided half the destroyers w'.ich had safely convoyed the Third Canadian Division which arri-ed in Britain recently.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CL, Issue 22042, 15 August 1941, Page 6
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172CANADIAN SHIPS Timaru Herald, Volume CL, Issue 22042, 15 August 1941, Page 6
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