The supply situation was very spotty. We got them (parts) off the ships, but to get them out of the dock area was not an easy undertaking.

We're probably doing 60 percent as many ships as we had been before the storm.

For why drives on that ship so fast, Without or wave or wind? The air is cut away before, And closes from behind.

We have seen the level of training of navy pilots and sailors, which has grown. Many naval ships have been repaired and others were launched and some of them were already commissioned,

Kings Bay could certainly be expanded to accommodate a larger contingent of ships and personnel, and this region would welcome the additional jobs that may be transferred from Connecticut, ... However, I am concerned about the adverse economic impact on the New London area, the abandonment of a huge installation of facilities, and, less quantitatively, a loss of some of the proud submariners heritage of our historic association with service and training in New London.

Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.