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Show LAUNCHING OF A NEW DESTROYER Qulncy, Mass.. April 3. First to he launched of the new enlarged typo or ocean-going torpedo boat destroyers. I the destroyer Perkins was sent down ! tho ways into Foro river today from the yards of the Fore River Shipbuilding Shipbuild-ing company. Mrs, Larz Anderson of Washington christened the boat The Perkins Is named after Mrs. Anderson's father, the late Commodore Ocorgo H. Perkins. Per-kins. Unlike previous destroyers, the Perkins Per-kins will be able to keep at sea with the battleship fleet Heretofore the little destroyer craft have been unable to venture far from the shore. The Perkins is the first vessel to bo fitted with American reversible turbine tur-bine engines, of which she will have two, capable of developing 8,000 horsepower horse-power each. Her boilers, of a new type, will bo fed by oil fuel |