 For the first eleven months of 1944, an average of 4.27 ships were launched per month.Up to this point the shipyard had never produced more than five ships in a calendar month, except for August 1944, in which six ships were launched.However, the first ship of August 1944 was launched on August 1 and the last one on August 31, and only three ships had been launched in July and only four ships were launched in September.