The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-09
SEA FIGHT WILL
 BE AT JAMESTOWN Navies of the World Are to be
 Represented DREADNAUGHT IS LARGEST France, Germany, Austria, Russia and Japan Will All Send Vessels to the Great Ter-Centennial
 Exposition.
DREADNAUGHT IS LARGEST

Norfolk. July s.-(special.l l--Plans for the greatest naval display ever seen will be perfected in few days when Rear Ad- miral Purnell F. Harrington confers with the navy department in regard to the naval programme for the Jamestown Ter centennial exposition, to be held on the shore of Hampton Roads, near Norfolk, in 1907 Admiral Harrington relinquished his duties as commandant of the Norfolk navy yard on Saturday, July '. It is his purpose to go to Washington and talk the matter over with the authorities, and af- ter his plans have been definitely acted upon, he will make his headquarters in Norfolk, and give all his time to making the naval display a success.
 Hardly single nation has failed to give hearty assurances that 1t will participate in making the three-hundredth anniver- sary of the nations birth memorable. Never before have there been so many splendid specimens of naval architecture afoat as today, and without any doubt the aggregation of fighting strength mar shalled under the eyes of Admiral Har- rington off the Jamestown exposition will surpass anything of the kind ever gath cred in one place. No more appropriate place than Hampton Roads could be chosen for naval pageant. recalling as 1t does sea fights and fighters of every era of the nations history, from the days Of John Paul Jones, Count Charles Hec- tor. D'Estaing and Count Joseph Paul de Grasse of Stewart, Preble, Truxtum, De- catur and down to the time when the Monitor and Merrimac fought out on these very waters a battle which changed the naval architecture of the world from wooden walls to the fine steel hulled ships of today.
 The vessels that will ride the waters of Hampton Roads next year will be rivals of the earthquake and the volcano in their capacity for destruction. They can be ftly compared with nothing else. Any one of the great battleships, or armored oruis- CTS. which will be seen at Jamestown could easily supply power from it's en- zines for all uses in city of several thousand inhabitants.
 Dreadnaught is Greatest.
 Probably the greatest ship in the line will be the British ship Dreadnaught, just being finished This vessel Is rated by naval experts as being equal to any two battleships in existence, armed as she is with eight twelve-inch rifles. She is of 1S,OO0 tons displacement and has a speed equal to any armored cruisers. It is ex- pected that Great Britain will send types of every craft in her navy to the James, town celebration, from the great Dread naught to the tiny snub-nosed. fishlike submarine
 France has a fine array of battleshlps and armored cruisers under the chief com- mand of Admiral Fournier. Among the battleships are the Charles Martel, Jaure- guiberry Condo and the splendid new IA, 4,5OO-ton ship, Republique.
 Among her armored cruisers are the Ernest Renan, Jules Michelet, Suffren and Leon Gambetta The French naval archi- tects are considered among the best in the world and the vessels they have built have been copied, in many features, by architects of all other navies. The French designers, however, surpass all others in the construction of sumbarine boats, of which class the French navy has large number and many types.
 The Imperial German navy, which Ad- miral won Rooster rules, is divided into two fleets always kept near the German coast. It has some fine ships of the types of the Wittelsbach, Brandenburg, Woertn and Kaiserin Augusta. These vessels range in size from 12,00 0to 1900 tons This limit, following the lead of Great