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Show Scout Cruiser Marblehead Is Launched 1 1 f r "'N if y' W . --Jf i ' fl)viv 1 fV j If f . aM i . J " t--"' ..-T,.niirr .fr i- w -WxxW Huru, sliding down the ways at the Cramp shipyard, Camden, N. J., is the newest addition to the U. S. navy, Just after she had been christened Marble-head Marble-head by Mrs. Hannah Martin Evans, mother of the first man from Marblehead, Mass., to meet death in the World war. The new vessel is 555 feet long, 55 feet beam at waterline, and is a combined scout cruiser, flotilla leader, mine layer and airplane carrier. The illustration also shows Mrs. Evans. |