Eight ships here been assigned to transporting displaced persons and refugees from the American zone of Europe to the United States under President Truman’s order facilitating immigration, the War Shipping Administration announced yesterday.
The first trip to pick up immigrants will be started on April 18, when the Marine Flasher sails for Bromen from New York, the announcement said. A second ship will follow two days later. It is estimated that the admission of the 39,000 immigrants authorized under President Truman’s order may take more than a year.
The ships, which were formerly used as troop transports, will have a capacity of 1,000 persons each. As troopships they carried as many as 3,500 per trip.
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