Show s NOVELTIES lerl ier furnished by the U S navy nav ru biting station salt lake city rhe be united states navy battle p U S S west vir virginia inta has a gill ath of teet feet overall overn ll width dal attl 9 97 feet 3 Vs inches displacement t tons and has a draught 16 T feet it has a complement ll 11 iii about officers and 1300 en C ed men it is equipped with GE i chines abines with electric drive and fc attain a speed of 21 nautical per hour her main battery ts 19 of eight 16 inch guns gr aich are mounted on oil turrets while ese guns gulls are more than 60 feet I 1 loreg and tire fire projectiles 16 inches any diameter almost five reet feet long eaid weighing 2100 pounds they erne so large that they can be seen tn in 5 tur twedt r by the naked eye and have stach ti ach tile the appearance of a brace ot of ie packs ka flying down the range to the acil arget as each turret Is fired it is ved red ti mated that tile the powder used in 14 it I 1 ting a broadside salvo re leiss tough power to drive a heavy pas r te atger train from los angeles 0 lutian francisco she Is forced nD rough the water by tour four solid conze onze propellers 13 feet in diame r each being driven by an electric motor fo for r a togi eeli 1 of horsepower which Is i to operate a fleet of 1000 I 1 tal y automobiles t the battleship U S S west vir can be referred to as a float 9 city sound motion pictures YV eife e held aboard each night there foll tollit a barber shop tailor shop shoe I 1 e abair shop photographers shop adilda ileida fountain news stand printing ired op lee ice plant machine shop ear car frIl shop blacksmith shop hos gi altal ships store recreation room library etc the circulating library of over books and alves newspapers every day in enort when at sea the news of the mu is received b by y radio and pub 1 ce j I 1 bed by the crew A the visitor viewing the si sights lits a ra rm oard a modern battleship soon 01 t perceives mcelve that it is not only a sea ping vessel and a floating fortress ut is also a highly organized mo city with trained executives nd skilled artisans in the many ASUI rades and occupations of 0 cosmo activity modern national is closely related to the use ill vocations of industrial life and die jie carefully selected men who are ral rained ned in the naval service are a tat rational ional asset of 0 american lire life or t ut jbf it has been said that the recoil lysten on a turret gun of a battleship of 0 the united states navy does the elbe work equivalent to stopping stepping an automobile luto tuto mobile tra velling at about miles per hour in about 2 beet battleships of the united states tavy avy are named after states of the union ene intermountain inter mountain region is s represented by the U S S utah LT J S S idaho and U S S wyoming the battleship U S S arkanas gas commissioned in 1911 is the aldest battleship of the united states navy in active service |