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...sale of battleships and battle cruisers, which under the Limitation of Armaments Treaty must become defunct, will be conducted by the Navy Department before Dec. 1. Assistant Secretary Roosevelt explained that the ships would be sold for salvage and that the sale " will be the largest of its kind ever arranged, adding: " In other countries, notably Great Britain, the industry of ship-breaking has long been established; this industry is yet in its infancy in America. The Department believes the forthcoming sale may well establish such an industry on a sound basis in this country." The first sale will take...
...Commandant of the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Captain Martin E. Trench, visited Camden, N. J. There officials of the New York Shipbuilding Corporation met him on the bridge of a new battleship, formally turned the ship over to the Government. Captain Trench signed a receipt and read an order from the Secretary of the Navy commissioning the Colorado as a battleship of the U. S. Navy. The colors were hoisted and Captain Reginald Rowan Belknap took command. A new fighter had been added to the U. S. fleet...
...Colorado, or " Battleship No. 45," is a 32,600-ton ship, 624 feet long and 97 feet abeam, and draws 31 1/2 feet of water...
...somewhat similar tests were made. A joint board of the Army and Navy then laid down the conditions for the experiment which some Army men felt were too severe a drawback to the aeroplanes. Nevertheless, the former German battleship, Ostfriesland, was sunk by the 2,000-pound bombs from the air. This time the Army airmen will not be restricted by the previous rules. Moreover, a new 4,300-pound demolition bomb has been invented to aid in the attack...
...passing of the battleship; the coming of the aeroplane" often affirmed (and equally often denied) is again to be put to the test. The Virginia and the New Jersey, 17-year-old greybeards of the navy, will bear the brunt of the experiment. During the last two weeks of August the vessels will be taken out, off the Virginia Capes, and army aviators from Langley Field will do their best to make that spot the graveyard...