New Destroyer Afloat.

New York Times 100 years ago today, April 6, 1913:
Sponsor a Relative of Silas Duncan, Whose Name Craft Bears.
    QUINCY, Mass., April 5.— The torpedo boat destroyer Duncan was launched at the yard of the Fore River Shipping Company to-day. Miss Dorothy Clark, a relative of Commander Silas Duncan, for whom the vessel was named, acted as sponsor.
    The Duncan is 1530 feet long and displaces 1,010 tons. She carries a battery of four 4-inch guns and four 18-inch twin torpedo tubes. The vessel will be propelled by two turbines and two reciprocating engines of 16,000 horse power, giving her a speed of twenty-nine knots.