Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the rumor that Britain might get more old destroyers -Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox announced that contracts had been let for 40 more "tin cans," to cost an average of $6,300,000 each. They will be paid for out of authorizations already made for the two-ocean programs. After previous contracts were awarded, there was still some tonnage left over. Navy men passed the word that the new building would slow up the two-ocean fleet program, scheduled for completion in 1946-47, little...
Navy men are still making no public promise that the two-ocean fleet, in its overwhelming entirety, will be in the water before 1947. But last week, the rambling, white-walled Navy Building on Washington's Constitution Avenue was full of the expectation that most of the great fleet would be in commission by the end of 1945. Unofficially, Navy officers said that this chart of deliveries was, if anything, on the conservative side...
Sister of the Yorktown and Enterprise, smaller than the 33,000-ton Saratoga and Lexington, bigger than the Ranger and Wasp, Hornet is one of five carriers ordered before the U. S. decided on a two-ocean Navy. The other four (Kearsarge, Essex, Bon Homme Richard and Intrepid) are on the way. After them will come seven more, all ordered (and all under construction). Barring a war, in 1945-46 the U. S. will have 18 carriers. If Britain should fall this spring and surrender its fleet intact to Germany, the U. S. Navy's carrier equipment would...
...eight U. S. Navy shipyards are busy with U. S. naval vessels. So are many of the 23 private yards equipped to build ocean-going vessels of 300 feet or more in length. The private yards have also contracted to construct 176 merchant ships: 124 for the Maritime Commission, 52 (mostly tankers) for private firms. This is enough orders to keep their 83 ways busy more than a year, even if all the ways are used without interruption. Last week, when representatives of the industry met in Washington with Defense Commission experts and labor men, it became clear that interruptions...
...shipping lines, the growing scarcity values of vessels of any age has been the biggest stimulus to modernization since the Maritime Commission began its building program in 1938. When war began, the U. S. merchant marine consisted of 2,345 ocean-going vessels of 8,909,892 gross tons and was largely obsolescent. Over 7% of these old ships, which practically had been written off the books and would have been sold for scrap in a few years, now have been sold to England or Canada. At about $50 a ton, owners have received some $31 million-enough for down...