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Show uo- MOST POWERFUL OF BATTLESHIPS Now York, Aug. 7 Preliminary work on tho Dreadnought New York, which will he tho biggest and most powerful (battleship tho world ha?) ever seen, is already under way at the Biooklyn navy yard. The cradle In which the huge framo will rest has been prepared, tho traveling cranes are in position and workmen are busy placing in position the plates that are to form the putor bottom of the 28,000 ton battleship. The keel will be laid with simple ceremonies early next month, and a year later some' favorite young woman, wom-an, to be designated by Governor Dix, will smash a bottle of wine on her bows and christen her. Early in tho fall of 1913 the New York will take her place as the flagship of the Atlantic At-lantic fleet. |