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Show Hospital Ship Launched. PHIL VDELPHIA, Dec. 23. The United States hospital ship Relief, behoved to bd the first of its kind ever construct for that purpose, was launched today at the Philadelphia navy yard . , . M--s Braisted, wife oi Rear Admiral W'ilham C. Braisted, surgeon general o the navy, was the sponsor. 1 he Ke.lcr is 10 000 tons displacement, ami is i.. feet long. She has a spread 01 sixteen '''ongress appropriated ;3,200,000 for the i hospital ship, which was started early in j . 1317. |