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Show "NAVY FAMILY" i J I f i - - ' J - - r v- , F , . -. : . . .. f:.f.; .y., , t JT , ! Mrs. Charles H. Drayton (above T-r '; $, v ' k - 1 1 f n left), daughter of the late Admiral HtvJ-,,'. 1 v Vsy. J Beatty, sister of the present Rear b- i' l. i Admiral Beatty and mother of two J'1'-- "'4- i ' ' : f ' M jtt ' tons now serving in the Navy, -v . SV ."J li.- ' '-"f f ffcr' christens the 2,200-ton tuperde-' ,H : l'ii '' ? -t IT- stroyer U S S. Beatty at Bethlehem k. i ' Mrs. Charles H. Drayton (above left), daughter of the late Admiral Beatty, sister of the present Rear Admiral Beatty and mother of two ont now serving in the Navy, christens the 2,200-ton superde-stroyer superde-stroyer U.S.S. Beatty at Bethlehem Steel's Staten Island, N. Y., shipyard. Her granddaughter, 18-month Molly Drayton, daughter of Navy Lieutenant and Mrs. Charles H. Drayton, Dray-ton, Jr., was co-sponsor of the warship. Left to right (above right) are Molly in the arms of her mother, Mrs. Drayton, and Rear Admiral Frank E. Beatty, who has one son In the Navy and another preparing to enter the Naval Academy. IAUNCHING of the 2.200-ton I Bupei destioyer U.S.S. Beatty at the Bethlehem Staten Island Shipyard Ship-yard centered attention on one of the famous "Navy Families" of World War Two. The ship will be commissioned early In 1945. Named as sponsors of the warship, war-ship, the 94th destroyer built by Bethlehem since start of the war, were Mrs. Charles H. Drayton, of Charleston, S. C, and her 18-month old granddaughter, Molly Drayton, of South Portland, Me. It was the second time that Mrs. Drayton served as the sponsor of a destroyer named after her father, the late Rear Admiral Frank Edmund Beatty, Navy hero who served his country for 48 years through five campaigns. Including World War I. The first U.S.S. Beatty, commissioned commis-sioned at the Charleston Navy Yard about two years ago, was lost in the Sicilian invasion. . When Mrs. Drayton smashed the traditional bottle of champagne against the bow of the new U.S.S. Beatty she thought of her two sons, both in the Navy, and of her only, brother, the present Rear Admiral Frank E. Beatty, Commander of All Forces, Aruba-Curacao, with headquarters head-quarters In the Netherlands West Indies. Little Molly's attention -was focused fo-cused on a piece of peppermint candy as she reposed in the arms of her mother, Mrs. Charles H. Drayton, Jr., of South Portland, Me., whose husband Is a lieutenant in the Navy. One of the youngest men in the service holding such high rank, the present Rear Admiral Beatty flew up from the Netherlands West Indies In-dies to attend the launching. The Admiral's oldest son is now in the Navy and his youngest, only 16, thinks of nothing else but getting -Ik V . V - 4 ' V -t ! , , , ; 1 I" ' j M-i if i U.S.S. Beatty going down the ways. into the Naval Academy. Admiral Beatty was awarded the Navy Crosi for his heroism under Admiral Hal-sey Hal-sey in the Bougainville campaign and now has the important task of keeping enemy submarines out of Caribbean waters. |