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Wednesday 18 August 2021

US naval program for 1913 according to the Dutch newspaper De Sumatra Post dated 5 August 1911

Pennsylvania-class

USS Arizona

The Naval Commission proposed the US Secretary of Navy an extensive naval program for 1913 consisting of six 1st rank battleships (1), 16-18 destroyers, 1 auxiliary repair ship, a hospital ship and a number of colliers, gunboats and transports, total estimated costs 100.000.000 American dollar.(1)

Note
1. The 4x3-35.6cm/14"31.400 tons Pennsylvania-class was to be built under the Fiscal Year 1913, consisting of the Pennsylvania and the ill-fated Arizona, succeeded by the New Mexico-class