Larger yards built 12 cargo liners aggregating 159,685 dw tons and one oil tanker of 36,041 tons dw; four ships were completed for Coast and Geodetic Survey; craft not classed as oceangoing, and produced by smaller yards, included barges, offshore oil well drilling platforms, tugboats, offshore cargo supply boats, etc; combat and auxiliary vessels completed for U S Navy included nuclear powered submarines, destroyers, frigates, destroyer escorts, minesweepers, gunboats, etc.
1966 production of U.S. yards -- Down for commercial ships, boom for navy
Mar Eng/Log
Marine Engineering/Log ; 72 , n 2
1967
2 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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