Show The New Gunboats I WASHINGTON March 1GThe Navy Department De-partment is about to begin the preparation of plans for two 1700 ton gunboats for which provision was made by the last Congress Con-gress Inasmuch as the boats are to be patterned pat-terned after gunboat No 7 now in process of construction the work of the department depart-ment will be much lighter than if the gunboats gun-boats were of new design as it will only be necessary to duplicate the drawings already made The limit of contract price of the new vessels is 550000 |