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The boys call the PENNSYLVANIA "Old Falling Apart" because she turns out such a volume of gun fire you'd think she was falling to pieces" The PENNSYLVANIA was commissioned June 12, 1916, after having been authorized by Congress August 22, 1912. Her keel was laid on October 27, 1913, and she was launched at Newport News Shipbuilding Company, March 16, 1915.  America's and the worlds biggest Battleship slid down the skids into her native element at 10:11 am while 20 thousand spectators cheered.  Special trains from Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia brought thousands to Newport News. 
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