Your Battleship and Her Requirements: (Newsmap, May 1944)
To Build a Battleship:
- 2,500,000 man hours for design—30,000,000 man hours for construction
- Up to 6,250 shipbuilders for 3½ years
- 348,000 lbs. blueprint paper 30″ strips 5,808,000 ft. long
- 1,135,000 rivets—4,300,000 ft. of welding
- Electrical plant for all needs of a city of 20,000
- 1,220,000 ft. electrical cable
- 422,000 ft. of piping
- 9½ acres or 404,000 sq. ft. of decks and platforms
- More than 900 electric motors
- 5,300 electric lighting fixtures
- 1,091 telephones for internal communication
- 84,480 ft. of air ducts for ventilation
To Operate a Battleship (Per Year):
- 1,500,000 lbs. of vegetables
- 600,000 lbs. of fruit
- 9,000,000 gals. of fuel oil
- 10,000 lbs. of wheat, 4,500 lbs. of cotton produces powder for one 16″ broadside
- 800,000 lbs of meat
- 60,000 lbs. of butter and 900,000 eggs
- 300,000 bars of candy
- 60,000 qts. of ice cream
- 100,000 bars of soap
- 75,000 lbs. of coffee
