THE AMERICAN FLEET
PANAMA CANAL PASSED
SEVENTY-NINE WARSHIPS
UNDER WAR CONDITIONS
United Tress Association—By Electric Tol«----graph—Copyright. . BALBOA, October 25. Seventy-nine warships of the United States battle fleet finished the transit of the Panama Canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific on Thursday in 42 hours. ■ Under conditions simulating wartime the fleet overcame difficulties to compare favourably with the mark set last April, when 110 vessels crossed from, the Pacific to the Atlantic in 47 hours. Before the highspeed transit started mine-sweepers and other small ships passed through, but'these were not counted in the manoeuvre.
With the last vessel through, the canal received commercial vessels, which had been delayed.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 102, 27 October 1934, Page 9
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108THE AMERICAN FLEET Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 102, 27 October 1934, Page 9
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