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U.S.A. WARSHIP

♦——— BUILT IN CANADIAN YARD. ONE OF SEVERAL CORVETTES. t MONTREAL, Quebec. s The first warship ever to be ' built in a Canadian shipyard for the United States was launched with due ceremony here recently. One of several corvettes being constructed in Canada on United States account, the ship was christened the U.S.S. Danville by Mrs J. Pierrepont Moffat, wife of the United States Minister to Canada. The Minister himself delivered the principal address during the brief but impressive launching ceremony. As the Danville slid down the ways into the St Lawrence, with the Union Jack and the Stars and Stripes draped , k around the top of its high prow, shipwrights were already clustering busily around a second corvette earmarked for delivery to the U.S. Hung athwart : the bow was a large sign which said: ’’ “U.S.S. Danville. Take her away, H U.S.A.! Good luck.” Named after the city of Danville, Virginia, the ship was given the traditional launching send-off by Mrs Moffatt. When completely fitted and powered, the corvette will become one of more than 200 larger combat ships which have been completed in Canada since the war began. These include corvettes, minesweepers, patrol boats, base ships and others. In addition more than 1,000 smaller craft from lifeboats to motor torpedo' boats have been launched and 1,500 more are un- — der construction.

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 February 1943, Page 6

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U.S.A. WARSHIP Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 February 1943, Page 6

U.S.A. WARSHIP Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 February 1943, Page 6

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