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ussian Training Ship The Grand Duchess Maria Has Undergone Extensive Remodeling in an English Yard WAN, Hunter & Wigham Rich- ardson, Ltd.,- have just com- pleted at their Wallsend ship- yard, Newcastle-upon+Tyne, England, extensive repairs and alterations to this finely modelled three-masted iron ship. The Velikaya Knyashna Maria Niko- laevna, or in other words' the Grand Duchess Maria, is called after one of the daughters of the Tsar of Russia. The ship was built by Messrs. R. Steele & Co. of Greenock, in 1873 She was called the Hesperus, owned by Messrs. Devitt & Moore, of London, She was famous for the rapid pas- SAILING SHIP FOR TRAINING CADETS FOR THE RUSSIAN MARINE