Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1923-02-21 | Page 2 | Western Ship Men Set World Record

I i WESTERN SHIP MEN SET WORLD RECORD A i p I BREMERTON Wash Feb 21 21 In replacing the ten Inch 14 16 15 11 bre bro bre guns in the tho the flie turrets of the battleship Texas with new weapons weapon itt In 47 working hours from L Lo to o February 6 at the Puget Sound naval station here a worlds world's 1 was set Commander A IV V Bro Broa Brown n as- as assistant an superintendent ot or announces The nearest time to was made it tt was said Bald at Norf Norfolk lk Va when the same samO amount ot of cork orl as aas done in 82 SI hours hour In the tho Texas ISO mop mop- l- l lArate p parate arate lifts lilts were made handling 1800 tons of ot material The Tho armor was tak tak-ien tak en ort oft the old guns removed new guns uns put In and the armor Commander Comm Brown pointed out that time was WILB extremely moly Important In SUCh ork because It tt might be necessary to I a a ship In time tints of ot war when lOn 1011 absence of a 0 vessel would greatly lm- lm im impair I pair pall the tho efficiency of a fleet 00