UNITED STATES NAVY

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 154, 25 March 1920, Page 5

UNITED STATES NAVY

LARGEST SUPER-DREADNOUGHT

LAUNCHED

TO BE ARMED WITH 16-INCH

(By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright

' Newport News, March 20, The Maryland, the largest superdreadnought in the United States Navy, has been launched. Her displacement is of 32.C00 tons, and she will carry eight IG-inch, fourteen 5-inch, and several smaller guns. Her speed will-be 21 knots—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

ITta Maryland is the first of a number of United States warships to lie armed with the 16-inch guri: She is one of a group, the others being Colorado, Washington, and West Virginia, all now under construction. The 10-inch gun is the largest naval gun in extensive use. Japan is building two, and proposes two oilier battleships carrying 16-inch guns each. The standard biggest sun in the British Navy at present .'is 15-inch, which provides the main armament of nil the Latest battleships and battlecruisers, including the Hood (41,200 tons, eight big guns), but the great seaplane carrier Furious (I\soo tons, 31} knots) was designed to carry two 18-inch guns. The design was changed, however, and tho big guns were omitted and one was used in a monitor during the war. Two ot the latest German ships scuttled at Senna Flow (the Baden and tho Bayem) were armed with eight 15-inch guns.]