Navy-After-Next Contingency Producible Corvette (CPC): Emergency Production Historical Study

摘要

The question that this report seeks to address is 'what is the best approach to acquiring a large number of warships in an emergency.' Two approaches were tried by the U.S. Navy during World War One and Two. The first approach was to use an existing fleet destroyer design and attempt to accelerate production by increasing the number on order and the number of building yards. The second approach was to develop simpler and less capable emergency escort designs which lent themselves to quick production and could be built by mainly second-tier shipyards. The report finds that the simplified design of emergency escorts does not markedly decrease the time needed for those ships to first enter service compared to destroyers. However, an emergency escort approach does allow larger number of ships to enter service at a faster rate once production experience is gained.