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Show ;i 01g1eel ! GREATEST SHIP s W I Super-Dreadnaught, Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania to Be Most Powerful Machine in World. Newport News. Oct. 28. First platcfi of the keel of the Eiipcr- ! dreadnaught, Pennsylvania, which !J L i when completed two year? hence, will be the largest and most powerful 'fighting machine In tho world, were I laid at tho Newport News Shlpbulld-I Shlpbulld-I ' lng and Dry Dock company today. I Unlike similar events in the past, the i work was started without ceremony. I; i nd ven without the knowledge of f I oct representatives of the navy de- partment. n The Pennsylvania Is being laid I down on the same stocks from which 3 Ki the dreadnaught Texas now on her ; official trials, was launched eighteen months ago. Though actual laying of the keel began jesterday much work has been done on the giant craft Some of the huge frames already m have been prepared and soon hundreds hun-dreds of mechanics and laborers will ' be working on iho hull I The Pennsylvania will be 625 feet. I long over all, and will have a beam I bf 97 feet and a draught of 42 feet. I j Her full load displacement will be j 82,500 tons, or 3500 gross tons greater great-er than the uper-dnadnaught Okla-I Okla-I t jboma and Nevada Twehe fourteen 'inch breech loading rifles are to make lop the main battery of the ship Her I ipecd will be 21 knots an hour, and I jibe will be equipped with turbine en. I fines, supplied with steam from boil- j I ers with oil burners. The total cost , of the vessel with armor and anua-M anua-M jaunt win be about $11,000,000. |