AMERICAN NAVY
THE LATEST BATTLESHIP
OIL FUEL AND ELECTRIC DRIVE,
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPTRIGHT.)
(AUSTRALIAN - NEVT ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.)
WASHINGTON
28th October.
The super-Dreadnought West "Virginia will be commissioned on Ist .December. She is the most modern vessel of the American Navy, and the sixth capital ship electrically driven. The vessel carries eight 16-inch guns, fourteen 5-inch, four 3-inch anti-aircraft, and two underwater 21-inch torpedo tubes. Her displacement is 32,600 tons. The vessel is an oil-burner.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 104, 30 October 1923, Page 5
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75AMERICAN NAVY Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 104, 30 October 1923, Page 5
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