Show New Leviathan Is Launched at Newport News NEWPORT NEWS Va Feb e C. C The G.-The The great eat battleship Delaware aro was succeSsfully successfully success succeSs- s' s fully full launched from tho the yards of her herI I builders the tho Newport News Shipbuilding II in tog ing and Dry Dock company today The rhe launching was witnessed by n people Compared with the battleships battleship completed com corn or under construction of or thc the navy Y of or any am torel foreign n country countr the thc Delaware surpasses stir sur passes all She Is ono one of four foul sister ships authorized by congress which will form torm nn on Indomitable squadron The Tue other othere vessels e are ara tho the North Dakota being built hullt at nt Quincy Mass the Florida which will be built at the tho New cw York nn navy yar yard and the tho Utah to be bo built at Camden N. N J. J Powerful Fighting Vessel The Delaware is to carr carry as heavy armor and antI a as powerful armament as an any known vessel of or Its class will have ha a n. speed peed of or ono twenty knots which Is 18 be believed believed be- be to be the highest practicable for tor a vessel of or this typo type and class and will havethe have havo the highest radius of oC action Tho The arrangement of oC her main battery guns gun Is 18 such as to permit a broadside fire 2 25 26 per cent greater than that of the tue broa broa side fire firn pf It nn battleship now t or nr A. A asfar ur far as nR Is II known miller 1 Or r construction |