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Show A MONSTER WARSHIP. England Launches the Largest Fighting: Vessel in the World. Portsmouth, England, Nov. 19. Thousands of people witnessed the launching of the . ram battleship Formidable For-midable at the dockyard here. She is said to be the largest warship in the world, being of 1(3,000 tons displacement. displace-ment. She is 400 feet long, has 75 feet beam and draws 26 feet 9 inches of water. She cost over 1,000,000, and is estimated to steam eighteen knots. The chancellor of the exchequer, Mr. Michael Hicks-Beach, the first lord of the admiralty, Mr. Goschen, and Admiral Ad-miral Sir Michael Cujjne Seymour, .were among those present. A notable feature of the launch of the battleship was the entwining of the British and American flags on the official stand. The arrangement of the Formidable consists of four twelve-inch guns, twelve six-inch quick-firing guns, eighteen twelve-pounders, twelve three-pounders and eight Maxim guns. She carries 000 tons of coal in her bunkers, and will have a complement of 750 men. Her twelve-inch guns are in hooded barbettes. She is to be driven by two propellers and will have 15,000 indicated horse-power. |