All vessels present their own peculiarities, but the ratio of the outfitting trades to the other trades which applies to a sophisticated vessel is not applicable right across the board.
There is actually a shortage of men required for outfitting our specialist ships.
A licence authorising the expenditure of £4,316 was granted mainly for reinstatement of the premises as a retail outfitting and shoe shop after derequisitioning.
But it might happen, due to a change of demand, that the outfitting trades were short.
The outfitting trade is used to peaks and troughs, but it is essential to keep programmes up to date.
The shortages referred to occurred among highly specialist outfitting trades—outfitting in the naval sense.
Yet it is outfitting only 12 new trawlers for this mission and the technology of deep-water mine-clearing is largely unproved.
It must judge the balance between the metal work and outfitting as usual.
