On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 18:05:04 +0100, Jabba wrote:

Navy ships take quite a while to build, although the Yanks got the
business of building merchant ships during WW2 down to production
line rates

By all accounts they weren't very good though ....

Tell that to -

"...John Fredriksen, John Theodoracopoulos, Aristotle Onassis, Stavros
Niarchos, Stavros George Livanos, the Goulandris brothers, and the
Andreadis, Tsavliris, Achille Lauro, Grimaldi and Bottiglieri families
were known to have started their fleets by buying Liberty ships..."

I'm not sure how much that says about the quality of the ships, tbh. Just
that they still _existed_ at the end of the war, when there was one hell
of a need for ships.