The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-07-03

for year Her chronometers and SEX
tants, of which she had large number,
were very choice and valuable The
officers quarters were fitted up very lux
uriously, and revealed well-selected
stock of liquors, cigars, tobacco, etc.
Everything about her, in fact indicated
not only that she was pet of the rebels,
but that her unfortunate voyagers had
started upon long cruise.
THE AI& AMENT OF THE ATLANTA.
The Atlanta is armed with six guns,
one seven-inch pivot gun fore and aft,
and two six inch guns on each broad
side These guns are all the Brooks
guns, which, you will recollect, made
such good execution against our iron
cads in the late attack on Charleston.
They are also all rifed and throw that
long steel pointed missile of English man.
ufacture. The Atlanta has two maga-
zines, one fore and one aft, well protect
ed, and upon opening one of them hive
hundred rounds of ammunition were
found in it. The other magzine is sup
posed to contain the same amount, and,
indeed her officers say she has on board
one thousand rounds. When you con-
slider one hundred rounds is ships reg
ular armament, you cannot but conclude
that the Atlanta's cruise intended some
damage. She had also, in addition,
plentiful supply of torpedoe, cutlasses
boarding pixies, guns, revolvers &c. Her
armament is truly gigantic
DESCRIPTION OF THE INTERIOR.
She has inside three decks; first, the
gundeck, two hundred feet long by forty
wide; Immediately below this is deck
two hundred and eighty feet long, which
is sub-divided into the Captains cabin.
aft, the ward-room, the petty officers
quarters, and forward the mems quarter.
The engines and their necessary com
plements of course occupy the center of
the vessel. These engines are the same
which were in her when she run the
blockade as the old Fingal They were
built on the Clyde, and are models for
their beauty and action.
THE ARMoR OF THE ATLANTA.
First and on the outside were wrought
iron bars, six inches wide by two inches
thich, running perpendicularly with her
side, and properly secured, Doth above
and below, by rivets and bolts. Across
these bars horizontally, and on the in
side, ran bars of like material and pat
tern, fastened to the outside layer by the
strongest rivets. Within this layer, and
fastened to it, were two thicknesses of
live oak, twoinch plank also, running
perpendicularly and horizontally, and
against these walls were two more thick
nesses of Georgia pine plank, forming
the last series of her armor. You will
see that her armor is twelve inches thick
and presenting all the solidity which
could be given it by four inches OF
wrought-iron, four inches of live oak, and
four inches of Georgia pine
THE PORT HOLES AND SHUTTERS
Her port holes, however, were made
especially strong. Extra layers of iron
and plank, so that the embrasure meas.
ure from the inside to the outside forty
inches These port holes were a foot
and a half long by one foot in width, and
were protected by wrought iron shutters
formed by two transverse layers of iron
bars, of the same dimensions as those
which compose her armor. These shut
ters hung upon pivot, firmly adjusted
over the port hole, and were raised and
lowered by small chain, which being
attached to the side of each shutter, ran
through small aperture in the gun deck
CONSTRUCTION OF THE PILOT HOUSE.
Forward of the smoke-stack was an
/! elevation on the top deck, to all appear
: ances like cone; upon this cone was a
rnb
on the inside to allow a mans head to
turn with freedom. On each side of this
lookout were two small apertures, in the
shape of parallelograms, slanting to
ward the interior, and presenting to the
pilots optics in the lookout two lookouts
an inch and a half long by an inch wide
This lookout was of wrought iron foul
inches thick, and the cone upon which i
stood was the same thickness, with this
additional strength, however, that the in
| terror of the pilot-house being square
/ the interstices between the sides of the
/ upper part of the, pilot-house and the con
cave surface of the cone were filled with
eightinch, square, live oak blocks From
the top of the lookout to the base of the
cone was bat two feet and half, so tina
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his person, the rest of the pilot-house be
ing within the body of the snip and reach
ed by step-ladder from the gun deck
The second shot from the Weehawken
although it was glancing one, wrench
ed off this lookout and smashed in tht
cone. From this pilot-house were sever
speaking tubes connected with their ap
propriate rooms below, and all properly
lettered and numbered, so that the mar
at the wheel can readily communicate
with those below.
OUTSIDE DIMENSIONS OF THE ATLANTA.
Her length from bow to stern-post is {
small fraction over three hundred feet
The gun-deck covering is at its base TIVE
hundred feet long and forty feet in width
and at its top one hundred feet in length
by fourteen feet in breadth. You will
thus see that her roof does not slope al
the way up but has very respectable
top deck. From the gun-deck to tn,
roof the perpendicular height is six feet
and the sides of the roof sloping at al
angle of forty-fve degrees, the standing
height is eight feet. The lower edge o
the roof is twenty inches above waite
mark, so that she stands above the wa
ter about eight feet From her aft roo
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