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Show FOUR DESTROYERS LAUNCHED FROM FEDERAL SHIPYARDS Four destroyers were launched at Kearny, N. J., Sunday afternoon, after-noon, two at a time in the shipyard ship-yard of the Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock company, bringing to five the number of destroyers launched by this single yard in February. - Federal is the holder of the first Army-Navy "E" presented anywhere, any-where, and the award has been renewed re-newed for "continued splendid achievement in outstanding production" pro-duction" of destroyers. A Pearl Harbor hero's name was given one of the four ships, the Destroyer Kidd, as it started down the ways of U. S. Steel's shipbuilding shipbuild-ing subsidiary. It was christened in honor of Rear Admiral Isaac Campbell Kidd, who was killed in action during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii, Ha-waii, on December 7, 1941. The sponsor was his widow, Mrs. Kidd. The other three destroyers, Thorn, Bullard, and Turner, likewise like-wise were named for distinguished naval men as they were sent into the water. This was the third quadruple destroyer de-stroyer launching in the last ten months at the Kearny yard." |