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Show uo BATTLESHIP UTAH ABOUT FINISHED WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 Each of the tour great Dreadnoughts in process pro-cess cf building for the I'nltej Slates progressed about 3 per cent toward the finishing point during November. At this rate the battleship Utah will be complete In about three months. The Utah Is About Completed. The I'tah Is being built by the New-York New-York Ship Ltullding company, and Is H2.3 per cent complete, while the Florida, Flor-ida, building in the New York navy yard. Is R.l.r.3 per cent finished. The navy department has announced that It will require an appropriation of alont ICOO.ntH) more th;u Ihe 5G.'H -000 originally authorized. In order to complete the Florida The rlsler shir Wyoming and Arkansas, Ar-kansas, both of which are being built by private contract, are Id. 3 and 02.8 per cent completed, respectively. Torpedo Boat Destroyers The torpedo boat destroyer McCall will shortly be ready for naval service. serv-ice. She went through her acceptance accept-ance trial on Saturday, but ihe official offi-cial report of the event has not been received by the department. Nearly nil of the torpedo boat destroyers de-stroyers nro In nivanced stage of completion. The submarine torpedo Iwit Rarrl -t euda, which is 7 per cent complete,' heads the li"t of that class of vessels, so fur as the advancement of work is concerned. |