Show The Gunboat Bennlngton Launched CHESTER Penn June 3The United States gunboat Bennington was launched at Roaches ship yard at noon in the presence pre-sence of a large company She is a twin companion of the Concord launched a few months ago The dimensions are Length 230 feet extreme breadth 36 feet displacement displace-ment 1700 tons She has two triple expansion ex-pansion j engines developing 3300 horsepower horse-power j with a forced drought Her armament arma-ment is sis Ginch six Iinch breechloading rifles a secondary battery of eight rapid firing guns and revolving cannon on the rail and tripod t mounts Also eight torpedo guns and a complete outfit |