Bow and Stern blown off, British Cruiser is refitted by U.S. Shipyard, July 23, 1945. Thanks to the gallantry of her officers, men, and the skilled workers at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, the British cruiser Argonaut has joined the mighty Allied armada battering the Japs [sic] in the Pacific. Torpedoed by a Nazi U-Boat in the Mediterranean in 1943, the cruiser had both her bow and stern ripped off. Berlin boasted the cruiser had been sunk. Under her own power the Argonaut crawled across the Atlantic to the Philadelphia Naval Yard, There American experts sliced away dead sections, grafted on a new bow and stern, made other repairs, and in the end reconstructing more than a third of the ship's length. The Herculean task was completed rapidly despite the fact that the replacements had to be of British design. Another link in Anglo-American unity was cemented with the Argonaut returned to the wars - bearing a ‘bit of the States" in her bow and stern as she moves against the foe.