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Show OAKLAND BUILT SHIP IS NEW SPEEDY KIND WASHINGTON, April 3 - -The new 1 fast coast guard cutter. Modoc, built !at Oakland, Cal., at a cost of $7Sn,-000, $7Sn,-000, Is expected to arrive In Washington Wash-ington this week for Inspection be-: be-: Ton assignment to Ihe North Atlantic 1 patrol, It was said today at tho treasury. The Modoc is 244 feet long, has a ! 39-foot beam. Is equipped with elec-trical elec-trical turbine driven engines and is I capable of developing 16 knots and carries a battery of two five-Inch guns and one anti-aircraft gun. Coast guard officials declared the Modoc Is an example of the most advan. ! and modern type of coast guard vessels 00 |