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Show i Magnificent vessel duilt I I IN AMERICAN SHIPYARDS f- m TU largest voesel ever built In an A'ewtran shlpynrd was launched ANS Ifi. at the plant of Its builders, ' I'nltcd stale ShlhhulMIng com I"", at New London. Conn. The '"beat, which has 1 11 christened ,n" Hllim-sotn. Is exc led In lire liy '""tin other vessel In the world, the ' lc anil Cedrlc of the While Htnr " hli-h were built abroad. 'ft' Mlnm-sola Is to be one of the Brum,.,., f intermclliiie freight and pnit,,.r ships, with wiih h the ''f'tt Northern Steamship lompnuy alnn to K1,n rontml ( pacific ocean trnfflr. It Is Mil feel long. 7.1 feet ti Inrhn wide. 88 feet hk-h to the cap-ilaln'i cap-ilaln'i bridge, and 177 feet high to the to f tho masts. She will be t'grel u a four-maHted schooner and In ll will havo nine decks. Ave of which till he continuous. Hit tutal cargo capacity will be SU.000 ton, and her batehe are Inrge that an entire loeomotlvo or freight car inn be lowered Into her hi. .il Intact. The bunker eapneity la fi.nevn ton, nnd Hie driving power will rome from two (orllcal Inverted direct acting, triple eximiiKliui surface condensing mm lee euiincs hnvlig an Indicated! LorM- power of 1 0.1 w hli I, 111. 1111 a Kpee.l of about fourteen knots per hour Klre lu ftp hold run bo ettlm:ulh-id ettlm:ulh-id by steam, valves for controlling which nre nlwnys nccesnllile on the Upper deck. oinclnl nf the building rotnpanjr believe the launching of the Minnesota Minne-sota means much for American shipbuilder ship-builder who havo heretofore never built any but war vessels of the largest larg-est type. Korelgn ordera for merchant rhlpa aro now exported. |