FIRST OF ITS KIND
TANK-CARRIER LAUNCHED. LOS ANGELES, Sept. 9. A new type landing ship for tanks, the largest war vessel ever built at an inland shipyard, slid down the Dravo Corporation ways into the Ohio River the other afternoon amid the cheers of 4000 workmen and high ranking Army and Navy officers, says a message from Pittsburgh. A few minutes later, after its backwash had subsided from the shipyards of Neville Island, a new sub-chaser, the PC-59T, was launched. Within 30 minutes the double launching was over and the workmen were back on the job laying keels for two more warships. The tank-carrier, the dimensions and capacity of which were kept secret by the Navy, was the LST 1. It was christened by Mrs. Lawrence T. Haugen, wife of Commander Haugen, supervisor of shipbuilding at the yards. A pioneer effort by naval designers, it will be duplicated in several shipyards.
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Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 246, 19 October 1942, Page 3
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151FIRST OF ITS KIND Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 246, 19 October 1942, Page 3
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