Giant Warship Launched
Received Friday, 11 p.m. NEW YORK, Aug ; 27. The lowa, oi 45,000 tons* the mightiest United States battleship yet built, was launched at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Thirty thousand attended the ceremony, while a further 10/JOU watched from Manhattan side. The Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Mr. Ralph Bard) said the Japanese and Germans had built stealthily and well, but he would guarantee they had .idver fashioned such a weapon as tho xowa. This was no mere s-.p; it was a, tool with which Americans' future would be written on history’s pages. The lowa, 880 feet long, has a main battery of 16-inch guns, and it is claimed they will fire faster and further than those on uuy other ship afloat.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 67, Issue 206, 29 August 1942, Page 5
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