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Mighty Fleet Of Dreadnoughts Steams Toward Completion
The era’s great battleships Texas New York Oklahoma and Pennsylvania near completion and launch. Texas measures 665 feet with 95 foot beam and 27 000 tons displacement while New York sits at 98 per cent, rivals under keen watch. Oklahoma is 683 feet long with ten 14 inch guns and 27 500 ton displacement. Pennsylvania boasts triple turrets and 14 inch rifles, armor, torpedo defenses, and 32 500 tons.
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John J. Breen
Texas
New York
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
United States Navy
Arkansas
Wyoming
Fast River
Tompkinsville
Navy Yards
Brooklyn Bridge
Navy Yard
Newport News
Brooklyn Navy Yard
United States
E. E. Hoss
Methodist Episcopal Church South
Muskogee
Okla
Nashville
Tenn
New Pennsylvania
Maine