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U.S.A. BATTLESHIPS

BUILT AND BUILDING TWO OUT OF SEVENTEEN IN COMMISSION. THREE OTHERS LAUNCHED LAST YEAR. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day Noon.) NEW YORK, May 12. Interesting disclosures about the United States battleship building programme have been made by the “New York Times” Washington correspondent, Mr Arthur Krock. He says twelve battleships are building in Government yards—the Alabama, lowa, New Jersey, Missouri, Wisconsin, Illinois, Kentucky, Montana, Ohio, Maine, New and Louisiana. Three battleships building in. private yards were al! launched last summer—the South Dakota, of 45,000 tons and the Indiana and Massachusetts each of 35,000 tons. Except for the ’ Missouri, Wisconsin and Kentucky, all the keels were laid before 1941. The largest of the battleships Will cost 135 million dollars each, the medium-sized ones 92 million dollars each and smallest 77 million dollars each. The total for seventeen battleships, including the North Carolina and Washington already in commission, is estimated at 1,700 million dollars. Mr Krock says our battleships have not been in action since Pearl Harbour. An American plane ship team has done very well without its heavy naval arm. This lends additional strength to those military experts who for some years have opposed a great diversion of material and money to our battleship programme.

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 May 1942, Page 4

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U.S.A. BATTLESHIPS Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 May 1942, Page 4

U.S.A. BATTLESHIPS Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 May 1942, Page 4

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