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Show GREAT BRITAIN'S GREATEST BATTLESHIP LAUNCHED By Associated Press. PORTSMOUTH, England, Aug. 20., Tho Orion, Great Britain's newest and greatest battlesiilp, was launched here today In the presence of King Alfonso and Queen Victoria of Spain. Compared with the armored cruiser Lion, of 2G.350 tons, just launched, the' Orion will displace dis-place only 22,500 tons, but her ten 13.5-Inch 13.5-Inch guns and her now, deadly equipment equip-ment of torpedoes, render her by far the most powerful battleship afloat. Tho new torpedo to be carried by the Orion weighs nearly a ton and Its range will excocd 17,000 yards, at a speed of forty knots. The torpedo carries a charge of gun cotton weighing 250 pounds. Tho Orion will havo a speed of twenty-ono knots 'and will carry 4000 tons of fuel, giving her an unusually wi.do radius of action. |