Show KEEl KEL OF oi GREAT CHEAT jJ BA BATTLESHIP S LAID NEWPORT NEWS NESS Oct 28 Yint rn First t plates of the keel of ot th the tho naught Pennsylvania which when completed two 3 years rears ears hence bonce will be thoI tho the I I 1 largest Best gest and aud most powerful fi fighting machine machine ma ma- I chine in the world were laid at t the tho Q Newport News Shipbuilding and DryDock Dry DryDock l I Dock yesterday Unlike simi ebni lar events in the past the work tva t was started without ceremony and oven even without the knowledge of lo local 31 representatives of the na navy department The Pennsylvania is being laid down don own n non on tho s from which the thc Texas Texas' now on her hor official trials was launched Qi eighteen months ago RO Thou Though h actual laying lahn of ot the keel began bORan today muck work has been done on the giant craft Somo Some of th the hll Hugo o frames already have baye been bean prepared and soon hu hundred hundreS of mcchan and laborers borers will be bc working on the hull bull Tho Pennsylvania will be feet loo long over ovar all all and arid will have bavo a beam of 07 feet feat and and anda a draft of 42 feet Her Hor full load displacement will b be tons or gross oss tons rater greater than tho the Ok Oklahoma and Nevada Twelve mch inch breech loading rifles dUes are to snake mae up the main batter battery of the ship Her speed peed will be twenty one knots knot an In hour and she will willbe willbe b be equipped ip od with frith ith turbine engines supplied sup sup plied with steam from boilers with oil burners The total cost of the vessel with armor and anel will be about |