LAUNCHING A U.S.A. BATTLESHIP AIRMEN PASSED OUT

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 7, 8 July 1940, Page 5

LAUNCHING A U.S.A. BATTLESHIP AIRMEN PASSED OUT

"Sport . and General" • Photo. An Australian pilot officer receiving congratulations on returning safely to his home station after a successful air raid over enemy lines. ■ .

Last month America acclaimed the first launching of a capital ship in nineteen years, when the 35,000----ton battleship Washington was launched. The great battleship, which by the time she is completed, will have cost eighty million dollars, is seen gliding down Way No. 3 at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. The Washington will carry nine 16in guns.

Vice-Admiral Sir Geoffrey Blake, appointed a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty. From 1929 to 1932 he was in command of*the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy.

r ..... 7 7 Green and Hahn Photo. T ,. , , . , m o r, tw .t>. known in shipping circles and was Vice-Admiral T. S. V. Phillips, formerly general manager of the Six acting pilot officers and eight sergeant pilots were passed out at a ceremony at the Royal New Zealand Air Force Station at appointed Vice-Chief of the Naval Anchor Shipping and Foundry Wigram recently. Standing, from left, Sergeant Pilots G. C. R. Pannell, J. B. Courtis, G. S. Taylor, E. E. Croker, R. L. Baker, H. Staff. He is a grandson of Admiral Company, with headquarters at R. Mitchell, C. F. Scott, and K. Dawick. Seated, Acting Pilot Officers, V. D. Gain, J. H. Deans, A. B. Baird, A. F. H. Tye, B. H. Sir Algernon de Horsey, a reNelson. Thomson, and D. M. Whitney. . nowned seaman in Victorian years.