Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1916 — LAUNCH U. S. TORPEDO BOAT [ARTICLE]

LAUNCH U. S. TORPEDO BOAT

New Craft Has Two Automatic AntU baHoon Gups and Is Constructed \ of Steel. i Philadelphia, May 19.—The United States torpedo boat destroyer Wilkes, which is on an improved type, was launched at Cramp’s shipyards. She Is a complete steel vessel, 310 feet long and of 1,100 tonß displacement. She has two antiballoon guns.