The fleet will consist of eleven large side-wheel steamboats and propellers, and a number of ship's launches taken from the Norfolk Navy-yard. It is [???] to [???] at Roanoke island, and when ...
The West Virginia, latest U. S. dreadnaught, was commissioned at Norfolk Navy Yard. She is a sister ship of the Maryland and the Colorado (TIME, Sept. 10) which are already in commission.