TABLE OF CONTENTS
VOLUME II

CHAPTER PAGE
PART III
"DEFENSIVE WAR AND TURNING OF THE TIDE"
         
VI. DEFENSIVE STRATEGY AND THE BUREAU OF SHIPS 1
  The Pearl Harbor Attack
  The Balance of Fleets
  The Strategy
  The Impact upon the Bureau
VII. DEATH AND REJUVENATION AT PEARL HARBOR 23
VIII. PERSONNEL EXPANSION 67
IX. EXPANSION OF FACILITIES 163
  Introduction
  The Expansion
  Production Shortages
  Financing
  Types of Contracts
  Lessons Learned
X. CONTROL OF THE SHIBUILDING PROGRAM 197
  Overall Controls
  Program Planning
  Production Requirements Plan
  Controlled Materials Plan
  Operation
  Scheduling Components for Shipbuilding and Maintenance
  Raw Materials Section and Its Functions
XI INSPECTION 255
  Supervision and Inspection
  Jurisdiction
  Personnel and Locale
  Post-War
XII. SHIP SALVAGE AND FOREIGN REPAIR 273
  Salvage Operations by Civilians
  Salvage in Forward Areas
  Foreign Ship Repair
XIII. SHIPBUILDING AND TURNING OF THE TIDE 307
  Chronology of Defensive War
  Shipbuilding Production
  Appropriations
  Planning
  Precedence Lists
  Problems of Production
  Production Record


TABLES

Table No. Page
14   Balance of fleets before Pearl Harbor 1 December 1941. Major combatant vessels 5
15   Personnel on board--BuShips, Navy Department; by months, 1933-1945 71
16   Number of employees by service, giving percentage of total civilian personnel, 1941-1945 76
17   Total number of professional employees, 1941-1945, by grade 77
18   Total number of sub-professional employees, 1941-1945 78
19   Total number of clerical, administrative and fiscal employees, 1941-1945, by grade 79
20   Total number of crafts, protective and custodial emnloyees, 1941-1945, by grade 80
21   Number of contract employees. 1942-1945 82
22   Engineering personnel as of 1 September 1947 113
23   Distribution of Officers attached to activities under the cognizance of the Bureau of Ships, 1 September1944 115
24   Officer Personnel, 1940-1945 118
25   Summary--procurement, training and assignments of Reserve Officers, BuShips, December 1942 through December 1945 121
26   Summary--BuShips Reserve Officers indoctrinated January 1943 to December 1945 122
27   Summary of Training Input, December 1942 to December 1945 123
28   Technical Officers assigned duty from Indoctrination or Naval Reserve Midshipman Schools. December 1942 to December 1945 124


TABLES, cont'd

Table No. Page
29   Educational background of WAVE Officers in BuShips 136
30   WAVE Officers and V-10's assigned to BuShips and its Activities 141
31   Number of shipyards building, repairing and converting (selected periods) 166
32   Geographical list of shipyards, as of 10 July 1943 170-74
33   Facilities expansion, June 1940 to November 1945 186
34   Dollar value of Certificates of Necessity sponsored by BuShips 188
35   Analysis of major salvage operations under NObs 36, December 1941 to December 1945 284
36   Foreign Ship Repair 303-04
37   U.S. Naval Shipbuilding Program--Authorizing Acts, 1934 to 1942 318
38   Ship construction or acquisition by Authorization Acts, January 1942 to January 1944 319
39   New construction and conversione d1rected by CNO or SecNav, 1942 to 1943 329-30
40   Major changes in precedence of Naval vessels, 1941 to 1943 333
41   Semi-annual estimated dollar value of construction and maintenance appropriations only of ship completions 1942 and 1943 357
42   New Construction, conversions and acquisitions by number of vessels and tonnage completed, by type, 1942 and 1943 358
43   New Construction completed, 1942 and 1943--Combatant, Mine Craft and Patrol Craft 359
44   New construction completed, 1942 and 1943--Auxiliaries 360


TABLES, cont'd

Table No. Page
45   New construction completed, 1942 and 1943--District Craft 361
46   New construction completed, 1942 and 1943--Landing Craft 362
47   Vessels and tonnage converted, 1942 and 1943--Combatant, Mine Craft, Patrol Craft and Auxiliaries 363-64
48   Total conversions and acquisitions--Auxiliaries, District Craft, Landing Craft, Small Boats, 1942 and 1943 365


CHARTS

Chart No. Page
VI   Organization chart, BuShips, 23 October 1942 15
VII   Personnel on board, BuShips, Navy Department, January 1940 to June 1945 70
VIII   Civilian personnel in BuShips, Navy Department, by type of service, 1941 to 1945 74
IX   Civilian personnel in BuShips, Navy Department, by type of service, shown as a percentage of total civilian personnel, 1941 to 1945 75
X   Private and Naval Shipyards in geographical sequence, as of 10 July 1943 169
XI   Proposed organization chart of CMP Section 238
XII   Tabulation showing, by quarters, controlled material estimated requirements, peak allotments by BuShips and peak allotments to BuShips by. OP&M 239
XIII   Cumulative tonnage completed of new construction, January 1942 to January 1944 365


APPENDIX VOLUMES

Bound separately, Available in the History Section of the Bureau of Ships and in the office of the Director of Naval Records and History)

NO.   TITLE
1.   History of Statistical Analysis in the Burea of Ships
2.   Conservation Program of the Bureau of Ships
3.   History of U.S. Navy Petroleum Inspection
4.   History of Chemistry Section, Research and Standards Branch
5.   Index of Contract Prices
6.   Vessels Directed To Be Built and Constuction Completea by Selected Type, 1938 through 1945
7.   Vessels Lost, Transferred, Returned, Sold, Scrapped or otherwise Disposed of from 1940 through 1945. (Lend-Lease Vessels Excluded)
8.   Vessels Leased
9.   Bureau of Ships Plant Factlities Expansion under Bureau of Ships' Appropriations
10.   Contracts Awarded Private Shipyards for Construction of Naval Vessels--1 January 1934 to 15 January 1946
11.   Vessels Assigned to Navy Yards and Miscellaneous Naval Activities for Construction, 1 January 1934 to 1 June 1945
12.   Ships Laid Down Since the Washington Treaty by Authorizing Acts 6 February 1922 to 1 October 1945
13.   Chronology June 1939 to September 1945 according to General Events and Specific Militlary Engagements; Events within the Navy Department and Bureau of Ships; and Estimated Value of New Construction


TABLES

Table No. Page
1. The U.S. llaY1 at lIl1nillWll.trensth. 'by t"

ancl year." '19'1-1932.,. ~ , "f.-- , II .:--I,t ,' .f If .' ,: If.

2. Naval Appropriationn.cal, 1924-1'~ l'

3. ew ConstJUCtion Awarded. 1922-1941 , ,. 14

4. Major Combatant V8 e18 of the UnUed Stat

on bend' an4 u " cOIII'notloa . . " . t" 0

s, Major Combatant ve el. of the JdUIh I!Dplre

on baD4 8ft4áua4er coDlt~cttoa. 90

6;, ;;. MaJ,or Combatant "8els of Japan on hand _

uruiel' constNctloa . . ,: ; 91

7 1alance of fl ts. United States. Jritatn.

". Japan~ on hand and UIl4er constmetion in

1931. 1939 and 1940 92-93

13 . , .1'Jmergenc;v Shipbuilding, Ne" Construction.

Conversions. Acq:uld tions. 1933-1941. 101-02

9 imergenc, Ne" Con.truction of COIll1lat Ve ele,

19'3-19lJ.l I" ' ',' II 103-05

10. . Authorised Approprlations. ' 1937-1941. 107-11

11. . 1lu8hlJlS Personnel on Joard. 1933-1941 125

12 '. 1aY1 tarA Personnel. áIU.Ut&S7 and Civilian.

're-War aDd 'eat A88tgaaeat ~. 145

1' Pre-Wor14 Val' n 1aY1 tard Constmction.

19)41941 . " " "" ", " 147-49



Transcribed and formatted for HTML by Patrick Clancey, HyperWar Foundation