Word: cruiser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Biggest carrier now afloat is the 33,000-ton U.S.S. Saratoga, originally laid down as a battle cruiser. The new class (CVB), proudly announced by Secretary Frank Knox last week, will be 45,000-tonners big as a battleship of the Iowa class. Almost twice the tonnage of the Essex class carriers, they will be faster, able to take "a lot of punishment above & below the water line...
That was the light cruiser Helena...
...Minutes, Two Ships. At 14 minutes before midnight, her batteries spoke. Her target was a Nip destroyer. Just 98 seconds later it was ablaze. As the enemy ship exploded and sank, the Helena swung her guns on a cruiser...
Four and a half minutes later the blazing cruiser sank. The Helena turned on another cruiser slugging it out with a U.S. cruiser near by. The enemy went down...
First Sight, First Shot. The decisive Battle of Guadalcanal began in earnest that night. The Helena was the first to sight the enemy ships. A Jap cruiser slashed the darkness with her searchlight, caught the Helena, opened fire. The Helena was already on the target. She fired from the hip: a full salvo. The Jap burned like a torch, lighting the way for the U.S. destroyers. As the Jap cruiser began to sink, the Helena's secondary battery pounded down a destroyer...