AHEAD OF SCHEDULE
LAUNCHING OF BATTLESHIP ALABAMA BEGINNING MADE AT ONCE ON LARGER SHIP, COLONEL KNOX ON TASKS OF U.S.A. NAVY. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 9.55 a.m.) PORTSMOUTH (Virginia), Feb. 16. The 35,000-tons battleship, Alabama, has been launched nine months ahead of schedule, being the sixth battleship under the defence programme. Immediately the vessel struck water, the keel of the 45,000-tons Kentucky was laid. The Secretary of the Navy, Colonel Frank Knox, in a speech, said: “Todas we know beyond doubt that the bur. den on our Navy is the greatest in it? history. Not only must we protect our shores and coastal commerce, but we must check the surging flood of Japanese aggression at the Antipodes until we are able to muster sufficient forces to send it hurtling back whence it came.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 February 1942, Page 3
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