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Show SHIP BUILDING IS PROGRESSING RAPIDLY FOR NAVY On Saturday of last week, the battleship South Dakota was launched at Camden, N. J. It is the third 35,000-ton unit for the navy. Already the Washington and North Carolina, sister ships to the South Dakota, have been commissioned. com-missioned. There is much work yet to be done on the South Dakota, but she will probably be ready for action in less than a year. Some idea of the construction under way for the navy can be gained from the fact that when the South Dakota leaves the ways, the keel of a new warship will be immediately im-mediately laid. This will be one of six battle cruisers which the New York Shipbuilding corporation is building for the navy. They are designed de-signed to mount twelve- or four-teen-inch guns and to weigli between be-tween 24,000 and 27,000 tons. |