The tonnage of vessels under construction for the Admiralty In private yards in Scotland amounts to. 65,502. These include three cruisers, fourteen destroyers and two submarines.
Yards in the north-west of England, according to information in an answer the House of Commons, are bulld-Ing #9313 tons including one capital ship, two aircraft-carriers, and eight 'Tyneside' and north-eastern yards are executing Admiralty orders totally {ng 110,805 tons including one capital ship, "one alreraftecarrior,—four cruisers and eight destroyers.
ne cruiser of about 10,000 4g being built et Belfast, while four destroyers and other ight vessels amounting it all to 11,160 tons, are under construction at Southampton, Cowes and cther yards in the south. Wireless through Reuter, London, Feb. 3.
Sir Samuel Hoare, First Lord of the Admiralty, announced in' the House of Commons to-day that construction would begin In' the Ports mouth and Chatham dockyards March 15 of two cruisers of the Dido class, with an estimated displacement of 5,000 tons.—Reuter.
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