The new 10,000 ton US Navy cruiser Quincy was launched at the Fore River yards of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation at Quincy in Massachusetts and was christened by Mrs Henry S Morgan a daughter of Charles Francis Adams a former Navy Secretary The Quincy is the sixth of a class of eight cruisers with a main armament of eight inch guns Photo shows the USS Quincy entering the water after her launch June 27th 1935