A WWI Diary That Never Was

WWI Diary was to have brought you the whole of World War I as it was reported in the papers of the day, exactly 100 years later. For a year I blogged news leading up to the big war, thinking if there was any real interest regular readers would trickle in. They did not. Count: zero. So I stopped blogging the war news. For students of the time, 1914-1918 editions are available on the Web as thousands of individual articles via a Times service called Spiderbites.

Thursday, August 30, 2012

Flagship Pennsylvania Renamed.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 30, 1912:
BREMERTON, Wash., Aug. 20.— Pennsylvania having been selected by the Navy Department as the name of the new $15,000,000 battleship authorized by Congress, the armored cruiser Pennsylvania, flagship of the Pacific Reserve Fleet at Bremerton, was Renamed Pittsburgh yesterday on orders from Washington, D.C.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Thursday, August 30, 2012

Flagship Pennsylvania Renamed.

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