Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Martin E. Trench, visited Camden, N. J. There officials of the New York Shipbuilding Corporation met him on the bridge of a new battleship, formally turned the ship over to the Government. Captain Trench signed a receipt and read an order from the Secretary of the Navy commissioning the Colorado as a battleship of the U. S. Navy. The colors were hoisted and Captain Reginald Rowan Belknap took command. A new fighter had been added to the U. S. fleet...
...Fleet. With the commissioning of the Colorado, only one more capital ship, the West Virginia, may to be added to our Navy until the expiration of the Limitation of Armaments Treaty. The Delaware will be scrapped to make way for the Colorado, and later, when the West Virginia is commissioned, the North Dakota will be scrapped. In this way the number of capital ships will remain fixed at 18, named after various states. No more capital ships will be laid down till 1931; none completed until...
...Colorado, or " Battleship No. 45," is a 32,600-ton ship, 624 feet long and 97 feet abeam, and draws 31 1/2 feet of water...
Four hundred miles of the most dangerous rapids in the United States-through the Grand and Marble Canyons of the Colorado-will be traversed between Aug. 1 and Oct. 1 by a party of map makers and geologists sent out by the U. S. Geological Survey, under the direction of Col. C. H. Birdseye, a World War veteran, chief topographical engineer of the Survey. Their four boats are specially constructed with air chambers, and are manned by the most skillful boatmen of the region. The men are strapped in the cockpits, wearing life preservers continually. The mapping of the Colorado...
...announced at the Navy Department that two new super- dreadnaughts, the Colorado and West Virginia, will be put into commission on Aug. 30. These are the last two ships of their kind which will be built in this country for ten years, under the Limitation of Armaments Treaty. The West Virginia and Colorado will supplant the Delaware and North Dakota, which will be scrapped...