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[SIZE=3]Industrial Allocation [/SIZE]
- 2/2 factories producing 2,000t materials, 263 tons from stockpile; 2,256 tons used, 7 tons stockpiled for Q2/37.

[SIZE=3]Infrastructure Development[/SIZE]
N/A

[SIZE=3]Naval Construction[/SIZE]
at Galway:
1 Type 1 drydock - Military sea tugs YTB-1 and YTB-2 laid down simultaneously. Both receive 150 tons to complete and are floated February 1st, 1937.
1 Type 0 drydock - F-3 Grainne, 478 tons required, 478 tons added Q1, 0 tons remaining until completion. Laid down January 1st 1937; launched February 22nd 1937; completed May 15th 1937.

at Rushbrooke:
1 Type 0 slip - F-4 Niamh, 478 tons required, 478 tons added Q1, 0 tons remaining until completion. Laid down January 8th 1937; launched March 1st 1937; completed May 23rd 1937.

Dockside:
- S-1 Connacht, 1,688 tons required, 0 tons added Q1, 0 tons remaining until completion. Laid down April 1st 1936; launched September 30th 1936; completed February 17th, 1937.

From factories:
N/A

On Trials:
- S-1 Connacht, destroyer, running trials from February 18th to August 18th, 1937.
- YTB-1 and YTB-2 on trials February 1st through March 1st.

[SIZE=3]Transactions[/SIZE]
- 1000 tons to Great Britain for purchase of four S-class destroyers (Sesame, Shamrock, Shikarl, Sikh), to be refitted Q2 and Q3 of 1936.

[SIZE=3]Other Notes[/SIZE]
Procurement of 3.7" naval guns and DP turrets proceeding: twelve twin 94mm turrets marked for destroyer conversions; two twin turrets marked for Fisheries Frigate construction; two twin turrets marked for Fleet Tender construction. Sixteen turrets and thirty-two 3.7" guns have been ordered.

[SIZE=3]Order of Battle (Irish Naval Service) end of Q1[/SIZE]
Note: X (Y)+Z = completed/in service (under repair/refit/rebuild) + under construction.
Destroyers...........................5(0)0
Frigate................................2(0)2
Gunboats:...........................1(0)0
MTB's:................................2(0)0
Mine sweepers:...................4(0)0
Motor Lifeboat:....................1(0)0
Armed Naval Tugs:..............2(0)0

[SIZE=3]Summary[/SIZE]
The Irish Naval Service has completed work on its first home-built destroyer, the S-1Connacht, which begins trials on the 18th of February. Two further Deirdre-class vessels, Grainne and Niamh, are laid down for the Department of Fisheries. Two 150-ton seagoing armed tugs are built to military specifications. Four S-class destroyers are purchased from Britain.

Current plans posit the rebuilding of the S-class destroyers into Contae-class frigates (destroyer escorts) armed with six 3.7" DP guns. They will receive the hull numbers S-5 through S-8. A fleet tender, LÉ Meath, will be laid down in April in Galway. Analysis of the two M-1 "E-boat" Motor Torpedo Boats has pronounced the design successful, and series production will start in mid-1937 with fourteen boats ordered for delivery by December 1938. Three further Provinces-class destroyers, named Ulster, Munster, and Leinster, will be laid down in October 1937 presuming the trials of Connacht are deemed successful.