Show 1 I. I I t 1 t Sunken Warships ships Are to Be e Sold WASHINGTON F Feb b. b 16 Three Three once famous American battleships which now lie sunk In Tangier sound sixty miles below Old Point Comfort with their decks ripped open and their steel plating shattered shattered shat shat- by bombs will be sold at auction auction auction tion at the Washington nav navy td U Uon on March 19 The rhe ships are the Indiana the San Marcos formerly tho the Texas anti the Alabama It will be the first time that vessels used as tar tart tart- gets In bombing tests have been of offered offered offered of- of for salvage They He lie in shallow aba aba- low water with their decks above the s and the bids asked for will h b be on the basis of at purchase of the ships Just as they are |