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APPENDIX

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PART III

Estimated Additions to the CCN by the end of 1962

2 Destroyers

Ø

30 Submarines

Ø

28 Coastal patrol craft (some may be replacements

for existing craft).

Based on present estimated rate of construction:

and retention of existing old and small boats. In view of

the inherent difficulties of manning submarines and training

the crews it is unlikely that the CCN could absorb this

rapid expansion and it is considered that the addition of new

and ex-Russian submarines would be partly off-set by the

scrapping of the old and short range submarines. It is also

possible that the estimated rate of construction may not be

achieved. For these reasons it is considered that a figure

of 18 additional submarines is more realistic.

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