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