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lited ciflc the [ght, and ’ the i, 35■ deaval vereSINK SHIP IN 30 MINUTESSHIPS ARE BEING SCRAPPED UNDER TERMS OF LIMITA- . TION TREATY.♦First Was Virginia Which Went With -“Fighting Bob” Evans on Cruise Around World.laveAboard U. S. Army Transport St. iHpn Mihiel, Off 0»pe Hatteras, N. C.—Ather 8Pectacular show, staged by army air-men over this famous grave-yard of sjiips, marked the beginning of, the j scrapping of American war craft required under the naval limitationHtreaty.the ; .who| The ships to be destroyed were lt;hip-ionoe ^he proud Virginia and New Jer-n jsey, which made up a part of the both 'American battle fleet which Fighting Bob Evans' led on the memorable nost ('n,ise around the world in 1907.the! The success attending the efforts rnialof the army aviators from Langley Lee, I Field, Va., who, operating under per-;olas feet weather conditions, were simu-in a latin^fx defense of American shores ding from an Jenemy attack, was greater |even than that.with which they met eked in 1921 in the sinking of a German land | warship turned over to the United the States after the world war. uise. Improvement of instruments and heir personnel in the two years was demonstrated clearly. It required just thirty minutes for the sinking of the Virginia, eight planes, flying at an altitude of three thousand feet, accounting for her with thirteen twelve hundred pound bomba.The New Jersey proved more difficult of destruction, however. Aftej ioub- tw0 attacks, which left her still afloat, anta kut leaking, the assault on the Vir-One ginia began at 11:54 a. m. The fourth ,sert bomb released struck the hull at the after turret and converted her super-ves-rhenmin-ruejhichtoi8.
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Graham Alamance Gleaner
Graham, North Carolina, US
Thu, Sep 13, 1923
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