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Show OUR STATE SHIP I NEARLY READY H Greal DreiJnauglit Utah Will H Soon t: Tersoi Over to H Go, wn(, H- Washing! ", jnn 14 , ltol-j H Dicadnnusht will be added to the JBM -Amorlcan navy the latter pnit oi , JBJ March, when the first class battle-' BJBJ ship Utah, now nearly complete, at H. e plant of the Now York Ship Uulld H "S company nt Camden, N J., will be K' clelHered to the government She will H; ''0 Immediately put In commission and B sent to the New Yoik nay aid foi H n few minor changeH, H Ths lull load displacement of the H Utah Is 23,033 tons, She will be the H Jnrgeht afloat hi the United States B 'navy at the present time, although tho B battleships Wyoming, Arkansas, Now B 'York and Texas will bo still more BBV io w erf ul when completed. H 'Tho speed of the Utah will bo 20 BBJ luiots. B Thu Florida, which Is tho sister H Hhlp of Utah ,1s being built by tho BB government nt tho New York navy BBj yard. On January 1 tho Florida was H SC.67 per cent. |