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Show BATTLESHIP. UTAH EXCEEDS CONTRACT ROCKLAND. Me., June Tt. A maximum maxi-mum soeed of 11.47 knots. .M7 greater than the contract requirement, waa attained at-tained bv the new United Rtatee battleship battle-ship I'tsh. the latest addition to the nation's na-tion's Dresdnoughts. during her etand-ardlsatlon etand-ardlsatlon trials over the official course here Vlonday. In all twenty rune were made. In three ahe made a speed of 10 tf.4 knots, on three others 11.01S. In another group of three 14.7M knots, and . In still another 104 tn addition to these there were Sve too-speed runa and three et cruising speed. In the top-speed runa the I'tah averaged aver-aged il.Mt knots. Her contract requires to 7f knots Testa showed 1M 17 propeller pro-peller revolutlone per minute neeeesarv to maintain the maximum and 114.1 neces- I sary for the contract speed. Toe engines developed. horsepower. Friday the Utah will hava a four-hoar four-hoar run at a aoeed of 24.7t knots and a two-hour run at ths sum speed, burning burn-ing both coal and oil. The battleship la III completed and It la expected ahe will be ready to go Into oommlsslon about Aue-uet 14. |