File No. 763.72111E1 1/36
The President of the Electric Boat Company (Henry R. Carse) to the Secretary of State
Dear Sir: We beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of October 19, and in reply would state that this company has not constructed submarine boats for, or delivered them to Vickers-Maxim of Montreal.
We might say that ten submarine boats were constructed by the Canadian Vickers people at Montreal from our designs, that company purchasing non-fabricated material in the open market, and fabricating, erecting, and assembling the same at its plants. We understand that all of such boats have left Canadian waters, making the voyage to Great Britain under their own power.
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