The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-11-28
new BATTLESH|P
NEAR COMPLETION
FLORIDA WILL COMPARE FAVOR.
ABLY WITH CRAFT NOW BE-
ING BUILT FOR THE FOR
EIGN NAvIES.

Washington. Nov. 2S.-The new bat
tleship Florida which is being built
at the New York Navy Yard. is now
eighty-two per cent completed. The
naval constructors expect To have her
ready next spring and some time next
summer the admiral who will succeed
Read Admiral Schroeder as eomman-
der r-in-chief OF the fleet. will transfer
his flag TO her from the Connecticut
The Florida, Utah, North Dakota and
Delaware will make the first division
of the fleet.
The huh of the Florida is completed,
and has been painted the slate color OF
the navy. The main deck practically
is completed, and il win be easy to
finish the work In the lower part of the
ship without regard to weather The
displacement of the Florida, when
ready for service, will be II S25 tons,
about 1900 more than the new British
dreadnoughts Neptune, Colossus and
Hercules, and about 900 less than The
British ships. Orion Monarch, Con-
queror and Thunderer either complete
or in process of construction The
new British cruisers Princess Royal
and Lion are of mere than 1000 tons
greater displacement.
. The Florida will be greater i'm ton
mage than any battleship or cruiser
now building in Germany. the nearest
to her i'm size being the three 21 900
ton ships of the Odin type, which are
being built. France has two battleships
under way bigger than the Florida. the
Courbet and Jean Bart, and six of the
Danton type, which displace about
1000 tons less. The new Japanese
battleships Kawachi and Settsu are
smaller by about 1000 tons, but the
mikado's new dreadnought reported 10
have been ordered i'm England a few
days ago, ii is said, will be about 1000
tons greater.
Italy Is building three dreadnoughts
of about the same displacement as the
Florida, and Russia has building a
quartet of ships, known as the Sevas-
topol type. which will be about 1000
tons greater than the Florida, Austria
is also coming 70. the front with two
battleships of 10000 tons. while Ar
gentine is having built i'm the United
States, the Rivadavia and the Moreno
both of which will displace 5000 or
more tons more than the Florida. Bra
zil, i'm the Rio de Janeiro. which now
is being built at ElswiclS, England, has
the greatest battleship ever laid down.
it will displace $4,000 tons
In the Wyoming and the Arkansas, |
both of which are about half finished. |
the United States has, however. two
battleships greater i'm size and arma- !
ment than any under construction for
any nation except Argentina and Bra
iii. These mighty ships will displace
27.243 tons. and each probably will |
carry main battery of ten 14-inch /
guns, the largest and most powerful
ever built for any navy. The Wyoming
is about forty-ive per cent finished, |
m her sister ship. the Arkansas,
more than fifty per cent. and the Flor
idas twin, Utah, is more than ninety
per cent finished Two other battle
ships, that probably will be known as
the oklahoma and Nevada. will be
even greater in size and arnfnrT ant !.
than the Arkansas and wy" \.
Contracts for these shinss.will oS let
within the next few de No.