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Show .SOON TO LAUNCH WARSHIPS Navy Department Announces Vessels Are Almost Completed Nineteen Other Craft Under Construction. Washington. Thirteen first-class battleships will soon bo added to the United 8tates navy, several of which nro nearly ready to be placed In commission, com-mission, and 19 other vessels, including includ-ing armored cruisers, protected cruisers, cruis-ers, torpedo-boats and torpedo-boat destroyers, de-stroyers, are under construction. The first class battleships will be placed In commission within the next six months. The bureau of construction and r-palr r-palr the other day prepared a statement state-ment showing the progress made on the vessels during the month of August, Au-gust, and how near completion ars theso ships. The most progress, four per cent., was made on the Mississippi, which Is being constructed by the Cramps at Philadelphia. The percen-1 percen-1 tago of completion of the ''battleships Is: Ilhode Island, 93; Virginia, 92.89; Now Jersey, 89.3; Georgia, 86.44; Con-1 Con-1 necticut, 8G.16; Louisiana, 86.4; Ne- brnska, 79.68; Minnesota, 71.16; Ver- mont, 61.4; Kansas, 60.1; Mississippi, 38.71; Idaho, 33.66, and New Ilamp-i Ilamp-i ehlre, 18.12. |