THE STATES NAVY.
A NEW BATTLESHIP. BY ELECTRIC TBLEGRAPH.—COPYRIGHT. PEE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. Received May 13, 9.45 a.m. WASHINGTON, May 12, America's • large battleship Florida has been launched.
The latest type of battleship afloat in the united States is the North Dakota, of about 20,000 tons, carrying ten 12inch guns, which can bear on either beam, the heaviest broadside at present in commission. The improved type now building in the United States is the vVyoming, 26,000 tons, carrying twelve 12-inch guns (two more than the North Dakota)which it is anticipated will bear on either beam. The 32,000-ton ship of 1911 marks the advent of the 14-inch gun. With a less tonnage ten 14-mch guns could have been mounted, but the authorities were apparently of opinion that twelve 14-inch guns were needed to really silence the twelve 12lnch guns of the Wyoming type. Hence it is considered almost certain that the United States 32,000 tonners will carry twelve 14-inch guns.
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Mataura Ensign, 13 May 1910, Page 5
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159THE STATES NAVY. Mataura Ensign, 13 May 1910, Page 5
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