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...issued the account, and is the flagship of Acting Vice Admiral Henry Daniel Pridham-Wippell, second in command of the Mediterranean fleet. This ship has been many times in U.S. waters. . . In the battle ... it was one of four cruisers which . . . exposed themselves to the fire of an Italian battleship in order that the British heavy forces might make contact. After the account was issued, it was verified that three Italian cruisers had been certainly sunk...
...wire note to editors, Associated Press memoed the fact that a British battleship was off Staten Island, told editors it was sending out no story. Most Manhattan newspapers were mum. Exceptions were the Herald Tribune, which ran a photograph and story on Page One, the tabloid Daily News, which front-paged her in an airview photograph...
This week at Brooklyn Navy Yard the U.S. Navy is to commission the 750-ft., 35,000-ton North Carolina, the first new battleship to join the U.S. Navy in 18 years. By July she will be ready to make her trial runs, then join the Fleet. Close behind will be her sister ship, the Washington, almost completed at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, and by next year the South Dakota.* And when the North Carolina goes into service, she will have profound effects on U.S. naval power and strategy...
...major tactical effect will become apparent only when at least three of the new battle wagons are in service. The 15 battleships now in commission are slow (18-21 knots), depend mainly on heavy armor and crushing fire power. Rated at 27 knots, the North Carolina can probably do 30. Three such speed wagons will give the Fleet a new battleship division, able to operate as a unit with a fair chance to outmaneuver the fastest battleships which an enemy is likely to have. The Navy's present battleships require destroyers, cruisers and aircraft to do the fast...
Naval officers devoutly hope that the new battleships have adequate protection against aircraft attack. If so, they will be the first in the U.S. Navy to have it. Said Secretary of the Navy Knox (in last week's Saturday Evening Post): "Our officers appreciated the possibility of air attack, but their failure to translate the appreciation into protection for the ships is the one real miscalculation they made during the 20 years of peace." Design of the North Carolina class was begun before the Navy had waked up, presumably was altered in time. The North Carolina...