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THE MASSACHUSETTS. This first-class, twin-screw battleship is a fighting machine of the most formidable type constructed by any nation up to this time. She was built at a cost of $3,0211.000, and commissioned June 10, 1896. Her dimensions are as follows Length, 348 feet breadth, 69 feet 3 inches; draft, 24 feet; displacement, 10,288 tons; horsepower, 10,400; speed. 16.2 knots per hour armament, main battery, four 13-inch, eight 8-inch and four 6-inch guns; secondary battery, srx





1-pounder and twenty 6-pounder inches on the barbettes.

rapid

fire

guns and four Gatlings armor, 18 inches on the officers and 424 men.

Her crew comprises 38



sides,

from 6 to 17 inches on the

turrets,

and from 8

to 17