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Show THE FLORIDA LAUNCHED. Big Fighting Machine Equal to Five Ordinary Ships. New York. Flying the white starred ensign of the United States navy at her stem, the stars and stripes at her stern, and a string of gay signal sig-nal pennants along the 520 feet of her deck line, the battleship Florida, the biggest of the American dreadnaughts built thus far, was successfully launched at the Brooklyn navy yard on Thursday In the presence of the vice-president of the United States, the secretary of the navy, the naval attaches at-taches of all the powers and a crowd of 50,000 enthusiasts. The 21,825-ton fighting leviathan is built to carry ten 12-lnch guns the concentrated big gun fire of five ordinary battleships. |