A BIG WARSHIP.
Per B.M.S. Sonoma at Auckland. San Francisco, Sept. 17. A despatch from St. Petersburg, dated August 30th, says : —The battleship Slava, which is one of the largest vessels in the Bussian navy, was launched yesterday at the Baltic yards, in the presence of the Czar and Boyal Family. The Slava, which was laid down in 1901, is 13,600 tons displacement, and 376 - feet long. She has an armour belt of 9.4 inches, and carries an armament of four 12-inch guns, twelve 6-inch guns, twenty 3-inch guns, twenty 3-pounders, and six 1-pounders. Her speed is to be 18 knots, and her crew will number 740.
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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1014, 6 October 1903, Page 2
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107A BIG WARSHIP. Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1014, 6 October 1903, Page 2
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