The quoted designer contrasts newly trained American shipyard labor with British workers accustomed to traditional practices. Prefabrication could be accepted readily in a new workforce while established craft boundaries made the same method harder to introduce in British yards. A dispute over which union should assemble prefabricated components stopped work and cost valuable time on urgently needed convoy escorts. The lesson is that wartime shipbuilding plans must account for labor organization and workplace psychology as carefully as hull design and material supply.
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Prefabricated escorts met established shipyard practice
A passage on wartime escort construction shows that prefabrication was as much an organizational challenge as a technical one in established British yards.