CARRIER WITH U.S. FLEET
Reported Movements Of The Midway
(Rec. 9.30 p.m.) HONG KONG, Feb. 4. The aircraft-carrier Midway, of 45,000 tons, has joined the United States 7th Fleet in waters north of Formosa, according to usually reliable reports reaching Hong Kong today. United States Navy authorities in Taipeh have officially declined to comment on the report. The Midway cancelled earlier this week a visit to Singapore and steamed
around the Malayan Peninsula at high speed. She carries 137 of the latest United States jet planes, including big bombers of the latest type. She is one of the most extensively welded ships in the Navy, and was reported to have cost 90,000,000 dollars to build. On September 6, 1947, the first carrier-borne guided missile was launched from the Midway’s flight deck. On March 7, 1949, a Lockheed P.V.2 long-range bomber, which can handle atomic bombs, took off with rocket assistance from a sister ship, the Coral Sea, with a load of 37 tons on a 2000-mile flight.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27576, 5 February 1955, Page 7
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