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It's a ship design intended to be rapidly manufactured in wartime or the runup to a conflict, and to replace wartime.losses after a war was over. Basically a modern version of the Liberty ship concept.I think in the case of PD-214, they also hoped that shippers would adopt the concept in peacetime, creating a pool of ships that could be readily adapted to military use in wartime. In practice, they ended up paying shippers to add militarily useful features to their own designs instead and subsidized their operations.
It's a ship design intended to be rapidly manufactured in wartime or the runup to a conflict, and to replace wartime.losses after a war was over. Basically a modern version of the Liberty ship concept.
I think in the case of PD-214, they also hoped that shippers would adopt the concept in peacetime, creating a pool of ships that could be readily adapted to military use in wartime. In practice, they ended up paying shippers to add militarily useful features to their own designs instead and subsidized their operations.
