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

Navy Gets The Arkansas.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 30, 1912:
Shipbuilders Turn Over New Dreadnought to Capt. Grant.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 29.— The new dreadnought Arkansas was formally turned over to the Navy Department here to-day, President Samuel Knox of the New York Shipbuilding Company giving the war vessel into the custody of Capt, Grant, Commandant of the Philadelphia Yard.
Officers assigned to the new battleship are R. C. Smith. Captain; Commander William Moffatt, Executive Officer; Arthur M. Keating, Lieutenant Commander, and J. H. Ingram, Lieutenant.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Thursday, August 30, 2012

Navy Gets The Arkansas.

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