Salt Lake Telegram | 1942-05-04 | Page 5 | World Record for Speed Set When These U. S. Warships Slid down the Ways

World Record for Speed Set When These U. U S. S Warships Slid Down the Ways rl i t A A A 3 t v r h r Y if i 1 m. m ld i WE i a i A a y y f- f 7 o fI 1 I f i i t k I f i i z V i I i it L Z I rJ i i i. i f t tT I i 0 s a o e t s A i w International News Photo AMERICA A. CONTRIBUTES FOUR MORE FIGHTING SHIPS IN DRIVE TO DEFEAT AXIS Left to right the destroyers Fletcher Radford Men Mervine and Quick as they slid down ways at Kearny N. N J. J shipyard in record- record breaking launching New Jersey Shipyard Launches 4 Destroyers in 50 SO Minutes KEARNY N N. N J. J May 4 UP A lp-A A. A quartet of destroyers four more American contributions of to the united nations nation's drive to defeat the axis glided down the ways into the Hackensack I river Sunday in 50 minutes The Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock company said the simple simple simple sim sim- quadruple launching set a world record for speed and Governor Governor Governor Gov Gov- Charles Edison acclaimed it the equivalent of a splendid naval victory The governor former secretary of the navy added In a speech at atthe atthe atthe I the ceremony that it was encouraging encouraging encouraging aging to note that destroyers which took more than two years to build when the Kearny yard started its naval building work in 1934 now are completed in seven to nine months The fighting ships all 90 per percent percent percent cent completed will be turned over overto overto I Ito to the navy at an early date They rhey are the Fletcher Radford Mervine Mervine Mervine Mer Mer- vine and Quick three honoring rear admirals of the navy with distinguished distinguished dis dis- dis- dis tradition and the last for a fighting marine Sergeant II John Henry Quick decorated for gallantry in the Spanish Ameri can war and the World war