Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-06-12
BID FOR rHI RS.
Opening PropcSais tn Washington
ON Monday Last $5,O00,00o worth
OF Work.

Opening PrOpcsaIs tu Washington
ON Monday Last $5,O0O,OOO worth
OF work.
WASHINGTON, June 10.-Bids for over
$5 QUO, 600 worth of new naval vessels
were opened at the navy department to-
day. Tho vessels bid for were OF thc, 9
distinct types and there was considerable
excitement about the contest between the
rival ship-builders engaged in the war OF
composition
The largest of the three veasels-in
fact the largest vessel ever designed for
the United States nayy-is known official
ally as the armored cruiser, No. 2, (the
Marine being NJ. u snd peculiarly AZ the
$500 ton vessel. She belongs to The
class OF swift cruisers and 10 very close
to the battle ship in that she is provided
with moderately heavy armor
belt, besides q protective deck.
The armor will be about four inches
thick and the curved protective deck six
Inches thick. She will be armed with
| six 8.inch and 70 4-inoh brsech-loadinR
riflss; is to develop 16, 600 indicated
horsepower, and speed of 20 knots.
| Her dimensions are: Length, $50 feet;
extreme breadth, 81 teet q inches; depth
| In hold Al feet inches.
The other large vessel is designated
"Cruiser No. g." and is TO TO have dis
placement Of $500 tons. She has no
armor, but ia provided with protective
deck Al inches thick. Her main batteries
consist of two inch and 10 4-inch
breech- loading rifles. ahe is to make
20 knots an hour with 1880 horse'
power. This vessel is to bs of about the
came type as the Baltimore, Philadelphia,
Newark and San Francisco except that
her tonnage is over thousand greater
than any OF them. Fer dimensions are
Length, $50 feet extreme breadth, 81
feet; depth, 80 feet.
The third vessel is the practice oruisei
of 800 tons, miniature man-of-war fol
the training OF the cadets al the MAYA
Academy. 1t is generally expected tina
the builder who is awarded the contrac
for this vessel will lose monay, as ther'
is Just as much material to go in her ~
in some of the lager cruisers. The ap
preparation limits for the tlres vessel
arc as follows: Armored cruiaer, S3, 500,
, 600; protected cruiser, 81 300, 900; prsc
tice ship, $260,000.
Tho bids for the Rrmorei cruiser No.
] were first considered. They we've as fol
lows For the vessel according to tn
plans and specifications prepared by tn
navy depagtment-the Union Iron Work
j of San Francisco, $3,100, 0G0; Williar
Cramp u Sons OF Philadelphia, $3, $50
600 /; the Ridson Iron d Locomotiy
! Works of San Francisco, SO, $50, 900.
The Union iron works and Cramp
Sons also submitted bids for this vess,
according to their own plans and spsoif
, cations. The formers bid was SO 600, 90
] and the latter's So, 1856, 900.
, The bids for the protective cruiser M
, were next received. There were b.
two, eaon from the Union Iron Works ,
. San Francisco. They proposed to COL
, struot the vessel according to the depar
ment's plans and specifications Il
Sl,796, 900, and according to their ow
I plans and specifications for 1880, 00
r Two bids only were received for Il
3 practice vessel asfollows: f. w. Wheel
5 of West Bay City, Hiob., at $245, 90
: Samuel L. Moore IL 90. of Elizabethpor
Z N. j., at $250,000. These were both
accordance with department plans.
4 There will be no awards for sever
8 weeks yet.