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Show FINEST WARSHIPS EVER BUILT. A-v IH 'llaaaaaaai Louisiana and Connecticut to Do ,iH Real Terror of the Sea. ILH It Is the opinion of competent H judges that In tho nowly designed " ships tho Louisiana and tho Conncc- 4flH Ictit tho United States will havo two lH it tho greatcit warshlpB over built. HbI Together w.'tb tho Urltlsh ships tho 'H lMv2i-d VII., Ue Commonwealth and 'fll tho Dominion they will cotnprUo tho Fall Ilvo largest wnrshlps lu the world. -f aafl Tho Oregon and Its Bister ships had '4.1 batteries of four thlrtccn-lnch anil eight ulght-lnch guns, but tho Conncc- IbI ticut nnd Louisiana will mount a bat- laafl trry which is so heavy as to placo lal theso vessels practically In a class .H by themselves. Knch carries tour IH twelve-Inch, eight eight-Inch, twolvo H sovcn-lnch und twenty three-Inch H guns. The noxt most powerfully arm- B eil vessel Is probably the Edward VII, H Sho also carries four twelve-Inch, bu' H Instead of the eight eight-Inch sho la H armed with four 'J. 2-Inch guns. This, LH of course. Is a much more powerful H weapon than thu eight eight-Inch, H that la to say, will bo bo much greater B that there will ho far mora likelihood BJ of getting In an effective blow. , HJ It la the broadside battery ol 1 HJ twelve seven-Inch guns, howovur, that J BJ In hi'licwd to render thu Connecticut ' H m much mora powerful lh&n tho Kd- ' HJ ward VII., which curries only ten lAfl Fix-Inch agnlnst tho greater number AV of seven-Inch. An Incrcnso of an Inch HH lu caliber, when you get to tho size HH of a six-Inch, means n great Increase f In power. Furthermore, the Conncctl- lfl cut will enrry twenty of tho three- jH Inch guns ns against ten or twelvo of 1HJ the sumo caliber carried by tho latest H Urltlsh battleship. Bb |