THE AMERICAN NAVY.
THREE NEW WAR VESSELS. A Philadelphia telegram of March 7th says : Within a month three war vessels for the United States navy will be launched from the shipyards of the Delaware River, and after that", for the first time in a number of years, there will be no Government vessel on the stocks in these yards. The first of these new boats to take the water will be the gunboat Concord, which will be launched at Chester to-morrow. On the 19th inst. the cruiser Newark will receive her baptism at Cramp’s yard, in this city, and soon after the gunboat Bennington will be launched at Roach’s yard. In addition to these interesting events the official trials of the Philadelphia and the Vesuvius’ dynamite guns will take place soon.
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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 460, 5 April 1890, Page 5
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