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Show SOON TO LAUNCfTwARSHlPS Navy Department' Announces Vessels Are Almost Completed Nineteen Other Craft Undor Construction. r-' Washlngtpn. TfUrtecn flrst-clasa battloBhlpa wllrsoort be added to tho United States navy, oevernl of which are neaily ready to be placed In rout- m UIcuf aKa roihW vofboIp, including includ-ing armored criiTvrr7 protccfiod crulR-' qrs. torpedo hciat. and, (nrpodp-boaf destroyers. de-stroyers. an nhler copstrtictjpti. Thr fl;t flaWjbattJwhlpni will be'q placed tn oommlwlon -within therfnextJ sir months: m ?tJf'' f r a The bureau of constnictlon, arid re-5 pa)r ,tho other, day 'prpparcdta ttato-t ment shhwing life prorosH mndo on th vpssoIb dnrlnx the montl) ot.Au-' H'V nPi bowMBT comploJlon" aro' thepe slilpn Thrj moSl 'proKisp.-four per ceiiu.. was mnde on tht! Ml-ilippl.; which !- being oonjtriifted by thoi Crnmp at Philadelphia. Tb peVfen-, tage at eomplctlon of the hatilenliips 1b Uh()dA Island, 01; Virgin's u&KO; New lersey. 0.3; Georgia, Kofl.Qon , nfctleut, 8C.15; Louisiana, RBJ; '?H$'. J5raW. 73T8; Mlnneaota, 71.113; 'Yer mon!?fil.l; Kansas, 60,1; Mliqlappl I |