SCUTTLED IN PACIFIC
SURVIVOR OF PEARL HARBOUR ATTACK Rec. 8 p.m. PEARL HARBOUR. Mar. 4. The United States Navy announced to-day that the battleship Pennsylvania, a survivor of the Pearl Harbour attack and two atomic blasts, was scuttled near Kwajalein on February 10 The destroyer Trippe was sunk on February 3, and the transport Banner on February 16. The announcement said “ the damage received at Okinawa was mainly responsible for the Pennsylvania’s unseaworthiness and not damage inflicted during the atomic bomb tests at Bikini in July, 1946.” The others were termed victims of “progressive deterioration.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26713, 6 March 1948, Page 7
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