Word: storeship
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Fourteen days from keel laying to delivery date is indeed a record of which American shipbuilders can well be proud. This seems a far advance from the 47 years required to construct the U.S.S. Alabama. Originally intended as a storeship, her keel was laid at Portsmouth, Va. Navy Yard in 1817 but not until April 23, 1864 was she launched. A record of 47 years under construction...
...Washington, Admiral Edward W. Eberle, chief of naval operations, gave orders for Commander Bartlett to stand by and then, as the hours passed without any word from Lieutenant Bartlett, commanded 24 Navy vessels-a battleship, cruisers, destroyers, a gunboat, a tug, a storeship and the minesweepers-to drop all other duties, report to the Cincinnati and fan out over the Caribbean on a search immediately...
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