NEW DESTROYERS
UNITED STATES NAVY
FIRST SINCE THE WAR
(Received 14th July, 1.30 p\m.)
WASHINGTON, 13th, July.
Designs for eleven • new destroyers have been completed. Tho Navy Department will advertise for bids on Wednesday for construction at a cost of four to five mijlion dollars each. These are the first destroyers undertaken by the United' States since the war. The specifications call for a tonnage of 1500 tons, larger armament, somewhat longer cruising radius, and a higher sustained speed than the present vessels. They will be 35-knot vessels, the same as the present, but a greater weight and ruggedncss to enable better speed to be maintained in heavy weather.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 12, 14 July 1931, Page 7
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