Show THE FLEET AND THE CANAL The program for OJ the official opening of the Panama canal is slowly rounding into form The Theold Theold Theold old Oregon will lead the fleet that will pass through the canal to be followed by twenty-five twenty and battleships There will be tons of floating steel carrying 1000 great guns an and l many hundreds of smaller ones Th The inch fourteen-inch guns each fire a projectile weighing 1400 pounds requiring for each shot pounds of powder and t the e cost of of- each sh shot shotwill shotwill t twin will win be e The Ne New York Oklahoma Texas and Nevada will each carry ten guns the others twelve and eight inch eight inch guns Two other ships snips s 's superior to any of these theBe wi will be finished finished finished fin fin- late in 1915 One will be the Pennsylvania Pennsyl Pennsy vania the other is not yet ye named |