OCEAN TO OCEAN.
BATTLE FLEET TRAVERSES PANAMA CANAL.
BALBOA, Oct. 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 the Pacific to the Atlantis in 47 hours. Before the high-speed transit started minesweepers 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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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 283, 27 October 1934, Page 7
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100OCEAN TO OCEAN. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 283, 27 October 1934, Page 7
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