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Show Our Moilera Mavr. Our oldest battleship, the Texas, has a length of 301 feet snd a displacement of 6H15 tons. The new Maine has a length of SH8 feet and a displacement of 12.B00 tons. The California, juat launched at San Francisco, has a length of 603 feet snd a displacement of 14,000 tons. The Texas bss a speed of sixteen knots so hour, 'ihe California Califor-nia la to have a speed of twenty-two knots, or Is to be. In "P'te uf her great size a faster skip that Die Brooklyn or New York, sml as fust a ship as that greyhound of the sea, the Columbia. |