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Show BATTLESHIP UTAH MAKES GOOD MARK Washington, July 3 Interest in navy engineering circles Is centered on tho results of the trial trips of the new battleship Utah, and officers arc expecting to hear that she has supplemented sup-plemented her excellent record on her standardization trials by good work on her four-hour trial, her two-hour two-hour run nt high speed, burning coal and oil, her twenty-four-hour endurance endur-ance run and her twelve-hour coal economy test All the trials were held over tho Rockland course. Thq tests are the most rigid yet required of a dreadnought. Official reports to the navy department depart-ment hearing1 on the results have not yet come in. While the ship was on the Rockland courso it was unofficially announced that she attained a maximum speed of 21.G37 knots on her standardization trial, or 0.S87 more than bor contract speed. |