UNITED STATES NAVY
NEW BATTLESHIP LAUNCHED
(Recd. 9.55 a.m.) PORTSMOUTH (Virginia), Feb. 16. The 35,000-tons battleship Alabama has been launched nine months ahead of schedule, being the sixth battleship under the defence programme. Imediately the vessel struck the water, the keel of the 45,000-tons Kentucky was laid. Colonel Knox (Secretary to the Navy), in a speech, said: “To-day, we know beyond doubt that the burden on our navy is the greatest in history. Not only must we protect our shores and coastal defence, but we must check the surging flood of Japanese aggression in the Antipodes, until we are able to muster sufficient forces to send it hurling back whence it came. ’
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 February 1942, Page 5
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