Patrol Boats Completed for Chinese Navy With the dawn of the 22nd an niversary of. the. birth of the Chinese Republic taken as a goo! omen, the new sister vessels, the Suning and. Weining, 300-tons patrol. boats built for the Ministry of Navy, were launched at the Kiangnan Dock on Tuesday, Oct.
Mrs, A. ©. Mauchan, wife of Mfr.
Mauehan, technical manager of the Kiangnan Dock, performed the naming ceremony.' She first smashed the traditional bottle hung from the bow of the Suning and the vessel "slid down the ways amidst the cheers by. about fifty nests. and a crowd of dockworkert Immediately after the launching of the boat, Mrs, "Mauchan smashed the second bottle of champagne against. the Weining's bow, and this vessel slid into the Whangpoo, Joining the Sunning almost. imme: diately Boflagged from stem to stern, the ster vessels were built" next to each other and are expected to be Commissioned for service on un. tary 1 next when the flag-raising ceremony will be performed. Des: pite the early hour of the morning, 2 goo! number of Chinese naval officers were on the platform which Was erected immediately in front of the two vessels for the ceremony,
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