Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-12-29
Progress Of 81 Navv.

made, rs evidenced IN the annual re-
port of Secretary Tracy, in the build
ing up of cur new navy. It is, as the
secretary says, "a progress both in
ships and in ordnance, by which the
United States has emerged from its
condition of helplessness at sea, and,
by the employment of It's own re-
sources, has distanced its more ex-
perienced competitors, marking an
epoch in the naval development not
only of this country, but of the
world"
On March 4, 1889, there were in
our navy only three modern steel yes
sells, with an aggregate tonnage of
1858 tons, and mounting thirteen g.
inch and four 6-inch guns, the forg-
ings for which last, as we'll as the
shafting for the vessels, had been
purchased from abroad, as they could
not be made in thus country. On the
4th of March next 1t IS expected that
there will be twenty-five modern yes
sells IN commission, while nine addi-
tional vessels, none of which in speed.
armor and armament has a superior
IN any foreign navy, promise to be
ready for launching within the next
twelve months. The nineteen vessels
thus added to the navy in four years
have an aggregate tonnage of 81 1872
tons, mounting altogether two I2-
inch, six 10-lnch, sixteen S-Inch and
eighty-two 6-inch guns, all of which,
with the exception OF five of the ear
lest, have been manufactured in this
country. Three new steel tugs have
also been constructed and put in ser
vice during this period.
Our new navy, including all vessels
built or authorized, now consists of
the following vessels: One seagoing
battleship (frst-class) Iowa; three
coast-line battleships (frst-olass)-
Massachusetts, Indiana, Oregon; two
battleships Second class)-Maine.
Texas; six double-turreted harbor de-
Tense vessels-Puritan, Monterey.
MiantOnomoh, Monadnock, Terror,
Amphitrite; two armored cruisers
New York, Brooklyn; one ram; two
protected cruisers of extreme speed
Columbia, Minneapolis; fourteen
cruisers-Olymp;a, Baltimore, Chi
cago, Philadelphia, San Francisco.
Newark, Charleston, Boston, Atlanta.
Cincinnati, Raleigh, Detroit, Mont
gomery, Marblehead; one dispatch
vessel-Dolphin; six gunboats-York-
town, Concord, Bennington, Machias,
Castine, Petrel; one dynamite vessel
--Vesuvius; one practice vessel-Ban-
croft; two torpedo boats-Cushing,
No 2 Making total of forty-two
vessels.
The three great first class battle
ships have displacement of over TO-
600 tons each, are protected by is
inches of armor, carry 13-rnch guns,
and throw an aggregate of over three
tons of projectiles at a single dis
charge, while the armored cruiser
New York, formerly declared by the
secretary to be ''the best all round
vessel of any type" Is now to be out
done by the new Brooklyn, of 9,15C
tons, greater coal endurance and
greater battery power. The two
triple screw protected cruisers, Co
lumbia and Minneapolis, with theil
maximum speed of % knots and sus
tanned sea speed of q knots, with +,
very large radius of action, represen
the highest type thus far attempted
IN this class of vessels.
a resume is given of the expert
ments and tests undertaken to Obtain
the best possible protective armor, re
sulting in the development of Har
veyized nickel steel for this purpose
from which our armor plates are nov
made, far superior to any hIthert
known, and destined to furnish tn,
standard, both of quality and manu-
facture, for the great naval powers Q
Europe"
Although all our new vessels. a
well as the torpedo boats especially
have been designed TO use torpedoel
the kind of torpedo to be employe
has for long time been most pei
picking question, notwithstandin
that there have been many valuabl
American inventions and improYt