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U.S. BATTLESHIP CAROLINA COMPLETED DESCRIBED AS MIGHTIEST AFLOAT. ARMAMENT OF 16 INCH GUNS. IBy Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) NEW YORK. April 10. Completed five months ahead of schedule, the mighty United States battleship North Carolina was commissioned in a Brooklyn navy yard. The North Carolina is described as the world’s deadliest and mightiest warship afloat.- It is claimed that she can shoot farther, faster and harder than any other battleship in the world. The North Carolina is of 35,000 tons, has nine 16-inch guns, can throw 10 tons of shells a minute at a target 20 miles distant.
The North Carolina is one of a class of six ships. She was laid down in October, 1937, and her sister, the Washington, in June, 1938. A third, the South Dakota, was-begun on July, 1939, for completion in 1943, and the other three (Alabama, Indiana and Massachusetts) were contracted for at the end of 1938.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 April 1941, Page 5
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