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Great friend to America Iron Works gets two life under canvas
The Bath Iron Works won contracts to build two of eight new torpedo boat destroyers ordered by the Navy. Acting Secretary Winthrop announced Bath’s two ships at $761.50 each, part of a $1.5 million project. The destroyers, 1,010 tons, 29.1 knots, use combined turbines and reciprocating engines, to be finished in two years.
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America
Iron Works
Thomas Pownall
Pownall
England
John Adams
Dresden
Adams
Pownalborough
Charles Sumner
Augusta
Samuel James Bridge
West Dresden
Lincoln
Bath
Ocean
Crown Point
Massachusetts Bay
Maine
New Jersey
South Carolina
Massachusetts
Junius
American
Pitt
Camden
Burke
Barre
United States
Church of England
France
Washington
Bath Iron Works
Bath Plant
Winthrop
William Cramp & Sons Co
Philadelphia
Bath Tron Works
Bath. Me
New York Shipbuilding Co
N. J
Fore River Shipbuilding Co
Quincey
Mass