New York, Sept. 15.
The keel of the 45,000-ton giant battleship New Jersey will be laid on September 16 in the Philadelphia Navy Yards, as the pitch of the United States Naval expansion program heightens.
'The commissioning of the 1,630- ton destroyer, Kearny,, in the Brooklyn Navy Yards took' place on September 14, while the launching of the 1,450-ton submarine, Tuna, at the Mare Island Navy Yard will take place on October 2.
Crews of the destroyers Barry and Goff, stationed at Lisbon, embarked on a steamer for the United States after these vessels were reportedly handed over to the British as part of the destroyers-for-bases deal as announced by President Roosevelt on September 3.—Domei.
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