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.

Friday, May 10, 2013

Progress of New Battleships.

New York Times 100 years ago today, May 10, 1913:
WASHINGTON, May 9.— The battleship Texas, building at Newport News, Va., advanced 1.5 points last month and stands 88.4 per cent. completed. The dreadnought New York, building in the New York Navy Yard, advanced two points, thus being 77.2 per cent. completed. The battleships Nevada and Oklahoma, building at Quincy, Mass., and New York, advanced 4 and 5.5 points, respectively, according to figures made public in the Navy Bureau of Construction and Repair to-day. The new battleship Pennsylvania, to be built at Newport News, has not been laid down.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Friday, May 10, 2013

Progress of New Battleships.

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