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Y Y Y A HARD-HITTING GREYHOUND OF THE BATTLE FLEET Building at the New York navy yard, New Mexico embodies a number of unusual features. The cutaway bow construction is of peculiar design, and gives this ship the appearance of a pleasure yacht rather than an oil-burning, electrically-driven battleship of the super-dreadnaught class) New Mexico will cost complete $14,500,000, and will carry 12 14-inch rifles and will be turned over to the government in 1918. es wre a | i ee ee RE RS ie RE es THE SHIP BUILDING CENTER OF THE’ SEATTLE, QUEEN CITY OF THE’ PACIFIC COAST, IS FAST. BECOMI? NORTHWEST (1) Two ships under construction. Aerial cableway is used to place beams and channels. (2) Stern view of vessels under con- struction. (3) Steel casting of 48-foot stern frame. (4) A general view of the Skinner & Eddy ship yards, showing plate and shape storage in the foreground. 345