FIVE NEW BRITISH SHIPS A WEEK.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXXVI, Issue 5516, 24 October 1919, Page 2 (Supplement)

FIVE NEW BRITISH SHIPS A WEEK.

During the war the total output of ships of all kinds from the shipbuilding yards of the Tyne, Wear, and Tees amounted to 1,130 ships with a total tonnage of nearly 3,330,000. Taking the duration of the war as 221 weeks, this means an. average of five ships a week. This production is all the more remarkable as the labour market was depleted by the urgent call for recruits and as many of the vessels constructed were of a novel type. The ships included battleships, cruisers, submarines, steam and oil launches, train ferries, ice breakers, power barges, tank steamers, cargo and passenger ships, cereal ships, destroyers, mine sweepers, trawlers, troop ships, cable steamers, monitors, lighters, standard ships, and the mysterious “Q” boats.