The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-11
Four New Destroyers
 Launched In Kearny
Brief Ceremony at New Jersey Dry Dock Company
 Commentaries 24th Anniversary of Armistice Day

Today,s paired launchings cut ap- proximately half an hour from the launching time established at the same yard on May 3, l942, when four destroyers were sent down the ways at a time in fifty minutes.
 Miss Mary Stevenson, of Brook lyn, N. Y, broke a bottle of, cham pagne on the bow of the destroyer Stevenson and named 1t in honor of her father, the late Paymaster John H. Stevenson, U. S. N. The Ring gold, named for the late Rear Ad- miral Cadwalader Ringgold, U. s. N, was sponsored by Mrs. Arnnah Shepherdson Abell, of Baltimore, Md, grandniece of the naval hero.
 Sponsor of the Schroeder was Miss Grace Wainwright Schroeder, of St. Davids, Pennsylvania, who christened the ship in honor of her grandfather, the late Rear Admiral Seaton Schroeder, U. S. N. Mrs. Horace K. Corbin of Llewelly Park, West Orange, N. J., sponsored the Stockton, which was named after her grandfather.
 Paymaster Stevenson, native of New York city, was attached to the U. s. s. Satellite, of the Potomac Flotilla. In December, 1862, he led boat expedition ashore and cap tured party of Confederates, in cluding a recruiting officer. With his detachment, he destroyed signal and recruiting stations. Six months later, while attached to the U. s. s. Princess Royal, of the West Gulf Blockading Squadron, Stevenson was credited with valuable recon naissance. He learned details of a plan of attack on Fort Donaldson vile, Louisiana. This enabled the small fort and the Princess Royal to beat off an attack by greatly su- perior forces. Stevenson died in Brooklyn, N. Y, on June IA, 1899.
 The destroyer Ringgold was the second Naval vessel to bear tho name. The first was among the destroyers transferred to Great Bri- tain in September, l940. Admiral Ringgold was born in Washington County, Maryland, on August 20, 1902. He received the thanks of Congress for daring and skill dis played in rescuing battalion of marines from a steamer at sea and for rescue of the U. s. S. Vermont. He died at New York on April %. 1867.
 Admiral Schroeder had command of the Fourth Division of the fleet with the Wisconsin as his flagship. On that part of the voyage of the Atlantic fleet around thew orld from Manila to the Atlantic coast, Ad- miral Schroeder was in command of the Third Division of the fleet. He was later on duty with the Gen. eral Board. He received the Samp- son Medal, commemorating Naval engagements in the West Indies, and four bars for encounters at Santiago, Cuba. He was born in Washington, D. O., on August IT, 1849, and died there on October 19, 1922.
 Commodore Stockton was the CO., designer with John Ericsson, of the Princeton, the first screw-pro- pelled ship in the Navy. From l346 to 1847, he was in command of the Pacific squadron. He was among the officers and men who received the thanks of Congress for gallant service in the Mexican War. He was @ United States senator from New Jersey following his naval ca reer AS a senator, he introduced a bill abolishing flogging in the Navy and urged measures for ade- quate coastal defenses.