Ogden Evening Standard | 1910-11-21 | Page 1 | Mighty Ship is the Florida

MIGHTY SHIP IS THE FLORIDA New York. Nov 21. The new battleship bat-tleship Florida, which Is being built at the Brooklyn iravay yard. Is now S2 per cent completed and lsltors to the yard may get an idea of what a mighty fighter the future flagship of the Atlantic fleol will be when sho goes Into commission next year. Some time next summer the comraander-lu-chlcf of tho fleet will transfer his flag to her from the Connecticut. The displacement of the Florida when ready for nervloo will be 21.825 tons. She will be greater in tonnage t.ian any ship building in Germany or Japan, but France. England, Rossln, Argentine and Brazil have bigger ones under- wjy. Bra.O battleship Rio do Janeiro, now being constructed in England, Is the greatest man-of-war owr laid down. It will displace 22,000 tonfi.