The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-03

for days. or as long as her coal supply of
1850 tons will hold out Her bunkers will
run her at ten knots per hour for $4,000
miles.
The Brooklyn will be an improvement
over any other vessel built IN the matter of
forced draught,. as her long smokestacks
projecting 100 feet above her boilers will
keep the steam-gauges at the highest point.
The stacks are built of steel, heavier at the
base than at the top, and stayed to the
masts. What heat will be generated in the
great furnaces below when the hot air goes
roaring up through those towering tubes
of metal!
The Brooklyns steel unsheathed hull
will have a double bottom and close water
tight subdivisions to twelve feet above the
water line. There will be heavy protect
i've deck extending from stem TO stern, the
edges amidship being five feet six inches
below the twenty-four foot water line and
rising to the level of the water line at the
middle of the vessel. Over the machinery
and boilers, magazines, ETC., this deck will
be six inches thick on the slopes and three
inches thick on the horizontal positions.
Forward and aft of the machinery and
boilers the deck will be at least two and
half inches thick.
Protection at the water line will be af-
forded by an armor belt three inches
thick, extending the length of the engine
and boiler rooms, and from four feet above
to four feet below the water line. Within
this armor belt and the skin plating will
be belt OF celluIose three feet six inches
thick the whole length of the vessel and
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berth deck.
Between these two decks will be thirty
six water-tight compartments. anlidshlps
to serve as coal-bunkers. The coming
tower will have N inches of armor, with
connecting tube to the protection deck
fitted with inches of armor.
Her twin screws will be each driven by
pair of vertical inverted triple-expansion
engines inclosed in separate apartments
and with shafts so arranged that the for
ward engines can be uncoupled and the
after engines used for low speed She has
seven boilers arranged in three batteries,
each in an independent water-tight bulk
head.
The Brooklyn will be armored with
eight 8-inch breech-loading rifles, twelve
5-inch breech-loading rapid-ire guns, four
1-pound rapid-fire guns, four machine and
two field guns. The big eight-inchers will
be mounted in four barbette turrets, two
having train-angle of 80 degrees and the
other two an angle OF 180 degrees, from
right ahead to right astern.
The barbette armor will be 8 inches
thick for portion equivalent to the train
of the guns and inches thick for all re-
naming portions. The turret armor will
be 5X inches thick, and the tive-inch guns
will be protected by fixed segmentaI
shields 4 inches thick and by 1%-inch
splinter bulkheads to protect the crew
from explosive shells. The smaller guns
will be protected by shields and extra side
plating. There will be five torpedo tubes,
one at the bow and two at each side. Steel
nets hung from outrigger booms will be a
defense against torpedoes. There will be
| two military masts with fighting tops.
| The length of hull on loadline is 400 feet,
beam Ga feet and draught 2S feet. Her dis
placement is $3.50 tons and the indicated
horsepower is 1880 tons. The vessels
complement is 566 men, officers and crew.
This peerless war craft is fifty-two feet
longer than the Oregon and sixty feet
longer than the Olympia. She is 1190 tons
less displacement than the Oregon, but
4480 tons more than the Olympia. The
Oregon has five feet more beam and the
Olympia eleven feet less than the Brook
lyn. The Oregon draws one foot of water
more and the Olympia two feet less. The
Oregon is $500 horsepower less and the
Olympia is 1868 tons trial horsepower
more. The estimated cost of the Oregon is
81, ,615. 900; Olympia, $2,3SS. 900; Brooklyn,
So, 500, ,OOO
The Oregon carries four 13-inch guns
and as many 8-inch as the Brooklyn,
but four e-inch, against the Brook
lyn's twelve fve-inch. This makes the
battery OF the Pacific vessel the heavier.
The Olympia's battery is lighter, but she
has ten 5-inch quick-fire rifles which lift
her well up toward the other two vessels
in efficiency of gun work. However, the
Brooklyn is the cruiser of the future, as
she can steam almost around the world
without coaling, an advantage that makes
her independent and practically uncon-
querable.