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Show THE DREADNAUGIIT. i- More news comes of the Dreadnarjght, England's -great battleship. It is being hurried to completion. . The4atest figures are that she will cost $9,987,485. She will have coal capacity to enable her to steam 5800 miles. - - y " The official announcement that" has just been issued is-sued in the White Book on navy, construction give her, beside 12-mch guns, twenty-seven 12-pound quick-firing anti-torpedo boat guns and . five submerged sub-merged torpedo tubes. Six of the big guns are mounted in pairs on the center line of the ship, and the remaining pairs are mounted as broadsides. Eight, and 12-inch guns, or 80 per cent of the heavyrmor, can be fired on either broadside, and four and possibly six 12-inch guns, or 60 per cent, can be fired simultaneously ahead or astern. The anti-torpedo boat guns are widely dis--tributed, so that the whole of them cannot be displaced dis-placed by one heavy shell. .' The "White Book 6tates that the experts without difficulty arrived at a decision to adopt turbines. . The speed is to be 21 knots. She will certainly be a great ship, but if ever she goes down 1200 difficulty arrived at a decision to adopt turbines. |