PRIDE OF U.S. FLEET
LAUNCHING OF lOWA POWERFUL ARMAMENT (9.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, Aug. 28. The lowa, of 45,000 tons, the mightiest United States battleship yet built, was launched at the Brooklyn navy yard. Thirty thousand people attended the ceremony, while a further 10,000 watched from the Manhattan side. The assistant Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Ralph Bard, said the Japanese and Germans had built stealthily and well, but he guaranteed that they had never fashioned such a weapon as the lowa. “This is no mere ship; it is a tool with which the Americans’ future will be written on history’s pages,’’ he said.
The lowa is 880 ft. long. Her main battery of 16in. guns, it is claimed, will fire faster and further than any other ship afloat.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20875, 29 August 1942, Page 3
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129PRIDE OF U.S. FLEET Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20875, 29 August 1942, Page 3
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