The numbers are, for a cruiser 500 to 550, for a destroyer 130, for a sloop 180.
Two sloops are to be sent out to take their place.
Of course there are the seaplane and aircraft carriers and the sloops.
The total estimate for dockyard labour on the ships of the 1929 construction programme, including four sloops not mentioned in the question, is approximately £775,000.
We must have masses of these small craft, whether they be called sloops or destroyers.
The allocation of the orders for the sloop mine-sweepers will be announced within the next few days.
The two mine-sweepers and one survey sloop belong to the latter class.
If you discuss the question of convoys solely as relating to sloops, you will only touch the fringe of it.
