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Show KING AND QUEER VIEW FLEET Ore Hundred and Eighty-five War Ships Salute Roya! Pair as They Pats Long Line of Vessels. l.oiidiin. One hu'id.'.d .vd e'giv-live e'giv-live slilps-ol wa.", repre i -tiling i Icti teen uatloiiH. paid homage to Kie;' George mid Ills consort tjueen Mary, at Spithoad on Saturday. It vvu.s the gi'e;:lesi naval display in the world s hlsl .iy. In this, the greatest line! n.it dual fleet ever asseiubled. the Delaware, the United States dreadnaugli! . stood out as the biggest warship afloat. As ttie king and ipi en, on b.iard tiie ni.sal yacht Vicitul.i and Albeit, proceeded through the long llii"S ol battleships, cruisers and other vessels each ship gave the royal salute. Th thunderous tone of the great gun were dca'cning. Included n tne party alxmrd the royal yach; were John Hays Hammond, Ham-mond, th- special emhissador from the United State, and other distinguished dis-tinguished envoys to the crowning festivities. Of the ships in the great column 1C" represented Great Britain's Bri-tain's sovereignty of the seas, and j eighteen were the moat splendid ' tyiM's of seventeen other nation. '; The tonnage of the HrlUali war ' siilpa wa more than 1,000,000. The cost of this International war fleet 1 wa twice a much aa It was when, lu 1897, the war ahlps of Great Bri- talu were called together to celebrate ' the diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria, i ia. i Th review of the naval parade In the Solent was one of the moat 1m : preaalve feature of the coronation ; cervRioni. and million of cheering people witnessed IL |