Clyde shipbuilding is looking forward to 1938 as the best year in the post-war records of the industry. hand there is £50,000,000 worth of naval tonnage, and the mercantile work on the order-books of the Clyde yards is reckoned at 500,000 tons, states the "Manchester Guardian,"
During 1937 the yards floated 112 vessels aggregating 378,210 tons. This was the best year since 1930, when the output exceeded 500,000 tons. The aggregate for Scotland—440,000 tons—is much greater than the output of the three main English shipbuilding centres, Wear, Mersey, and Tyne.
In addition to the two battleships, each costing £8,000,000, building in the yards of Messrs, John Brown and Messrs, Fairfeld the Clyde has six cruisers on hand, twenty destroyers, two depot ships, and various smaller craft.
Naval tonnage launched during the year included twelve destroyers, a cruiser, a depot ship, a submarine, and numerous smaller craft. Among the merchant ships launched were 22 cargo steamers, 11 cargo motor-ships, five passenger motor-ships, two passenger steamers, nine motor-tankers, and 13 coasters.
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