The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-12-15
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tonnage Of IS, 4O7 tons and mounting alto
1ether Twelve l3inch six Pinch, sixteen 10
inch thirty s-inch, thirty-two 6-inch, thirty
eight 6-inch and thirty four 4-inch guns, all OF
which have been or are to be manufactured
In this country During this period twenty-five
vessels will have been launched, thirteen OF
them, including the three tugs, during the cur
rent year, and OF all the new ships the con-
struction OF which has been begun during the
present administration only two will remain on
the stocks on the 4th of March next.
sour new navy, including all vessels built or
authorised now consists of the following yes.
sels One seakoing battleship (frst class
Iowa Three coast-line battleships (frst-class)
-Massachusetts Indiana Oregon Two battle.
ships second class)-Maine, Texas. Sir
double.turreted harbor- defense yessela-Pnri.
tan Monterey, Miantonomoh Monadnock, Ter
ror Amphitrite. Two armored cruisers-New
York BROOKLYN Que ram Two projected cruis-
ers Of extreme speed-C Columbia, Minneapolis
Fourteen cruisers Olympia, Baltimore, Chi
cago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Charleston
Newark, Boston, Atlanta, Cincinnati, Raleigh
Detroit Montgomery. Marblehead One dis
patch vessel-Dolphin Six gunbOats-York-
town, Concord, Bennington, Machias, Castine,
Petrel One dynamite vesseE-Vesuv1usl One
practice vessel-Bancroft Two torpedo boats
|Cushlng, NO. = making total OF 1orty'tWO
vessels .-sse. -s5r=
"Al the above, with perhaps one or two ex-
cePt1ons, are essential components OF
fully developed naval force, but the rel
alive contribution to the defensive power
OF the United States to be found In
theso groups OF vessels Is not to DO
measured eltner Dy the humDers OF snlpS
or the NUMBER OF tons alone The develop
ment OF the last Tour years mas not been con-
nned to ships alone At the beginning OF this
administration the naval establishment was
entlrely destitute OF certain elements OF ell
cheney, eacn one OF which was indispensable
10 us pract'cal employment as lighting force,
anu the absence OF whlcn' II IL nad been pos
sesseo VI huuufeu SHIPS, "oulu sui nave lett
~ III coho4tion Oh paralysis. IneSe were the
1ollo"lng; Armor. torpedoes, heaVy rap1d-hre
guns armor-plercing shells, smokeless powder,
Mgn explosives
The secretary details at length noteworthy
progress IN the production OF these things, and
says the progress noted by which the United
States has emerged from its condition of help
lessness at sea and by the employment of its
own resources has dstanced its most expert
enced competitors, marks an epoch In naval de-
velopment not only of this country but OF the
world. - -
Coming:down to q detailed statement as to
armor tests the secretary tells OF the work &C.
complished, OF the tremendous test to which
the harvey n1ckel-steel armor plate was sub
1ected, Rs the result OF which improved meth
Gus were Introduced IN the harvey process ana
conunueS:
Tine result has never been equaled or even
approached before by any armor plate, Amer
lean or foreign. 1t has demonstr that
the United States, in the reconstruction of
its new navy, which ten years ago had no
existence even on paper, is enabled to