The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1895-12-29

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class is the thicker at the maximum.
| being eighteen inches. while that OF the
| KeaIsarge Is fifteen inches at the top
| The turrets of the latter, however, appear
| to be the heavier. and VIII have the latest
Improvements in arnor.. ,,.
The largest guns Of the Iowa s ana inc inc
Maine the lo-inch. As to the ris' my
| Indiana trio and the Iowa have one MN, M.
mast sps d e sse aHsr drnas
| is that of the Indiana class that OF we
Kearsarge being only little over tMenIy,
| Ave feet, or two feet less. The largest
Complement Is that Of the Kearsarge ana
her mate. namely, forty officers and sSo
| men. , ,na
| Brooklyn of 927i tons and the New York
OF $500. Each was QUIT for the sane
speed, twenty, knots, and The same ,l, n1 Sase
| twenty-onc knots and l7.iol horse rswer
| so that as much, perhaps, may be nopeu
for from the Brooklyn. which is built by
| heavily armed. carrying eight s-inch ano
| twelve rapid fire s-nch guns, against me
| New York's six 6-lnch and twe!ve rap 10
| more normal coal SUPPLY and over MIRO
more total bunker capacity, her hgnres
gives the Breoklyn the record for coal
| carrying capacity above any OF our other
vessels, with or WITHOUT arm1r' Ins
on the sides and barbettes. but the Brook.
lyn has the advantage Of later methods
Of manufacture. Although oyer 1000 tons
cost for machinery and hull was s2,9Ss, Vb
70 rho New Works. seoSS 900
The armored ram Katahdin Is, in class
by itself. with It's accordance stu awaited.
although there is practically little dout'
Of that Her disbursement is PISS tons and
her speed about l6ls khots,, while the ar,
NOR on her sloping sides is from six to
three inches
OF double turret monitors we have SIX
Tho LARGEST is the Puritan of eG'n tons
| 8 md
thick AT the naximum harbettes of II
inches. and turrets, Of & She carries four
comes the Monterey. our only steel butt
monitor, though the others have steel
turrets, excent the M'nntonomoh, which
hos compound arnor. The Monterey is of
lnA tons and 1876 knots. with side armor
! Il inches at the maximum, and with her
| forward barbette and turret, lS inches and
! ~ inches respectively. and her aft 11pe
md ~ she carries two Pinch and two
| lQ-inch guns.
The other four monitors are sister ships
% 1890 tons. differing a little in details.
The slowe is { g Mianton mob, 1913 knots,
and the fastest the Monadnock 1i.5 knots,
with the Amplitude and Terror u knots
each. The Amphritriie and Monadnock
have llis inch barbettes. 7ia inch turrets,
and Q TO inch sides: the Miantonomoh
and Terror 1i9 inch turrets and inch
| sides. Each carries four l0-inch guns, and
all, except the Miantonomoh, two 4-lnch
! guns In addition.
The thirteen iron single turret monitors
| are the Ajax Comanche Canonlcus. cats
| IN, jason Lehigh MahoPle' Manha IAN IAN
| Mcntauk. Nandnt, Nantucket PasSaic ara
/ Wyandotte. These have I'VE inches OF
au1or on the sides and either 10 or II
on the turrets, have a speed of five to six
! knots, carry "A battery OF two i5-inch
sn Doth bores, and nave the slngle screw,
| grasshopper type of engine, Their Reels
! were all IL i'd in lSo2. ana eight nave Il
| displacement of 1910 tons and i've of 2l0j
| Some of them are now turned over to the
naval militia for use as training SHIPS.
| Turning TO the unarmOred Veas-'s, we
| md hrst sixteen steel cruisers, Of whicn
al but three are Of the protected cruiser
| tyne, Largest and fastest among them
| are the famous sister ships Minneapolis
and Columbia, 1875 tons and 25.w and -@,g 80.
| Knots respectively. They are also or
largest vessel beng AZ tees on We c, .oau
| water line. while CT the unArmorea cruis-
| rrs they carry the largest coal supply,
$50 tons. with a bunker capacity of lbu,
Icing surpassed n TINS respect ., only 10y 6y
| comes the olympia of $50 tons and Y,6Sj
knots. She is more heavily armed than
| lire finch guns. Fourth in speed IS we
baltimore Of 44lS tons and POS knots,
and she also carries powerful battery
But of all cur unarmorcd cruisers the
most heavily armed is the Chicago with
her four S-inch, eight G-inch ana two o.
inch guns on a displacement of only ioVV
! tons This battery viii be modified some
| what. however. on the completion OF her
repairs. which are expected to raise her
present speed of Il little over fifteen Knots
| to about eighteen. Tho speed of the At
lanta and Boston will also probably be
raised IN due time. Exceeding eighteen
, knots are the Charleston, Detroit Mar
blehoad. and equaling or exceeding nine
teen knots are the sister ships Cincin'
natl and Raleigh, the Newark the Mont
! gJmery the san Francisco, ana tnt
! Philadelphia. the tive last making nlhe'
teen and one-ha.f and nineteen and two
third knots. The Detroit, Marpe neat
! and Montgomery are not of the projected
| cas-.
OF gunboats we have fifteen. The larg-
nington of ITO tons and the smallest.
is,G Of liz knots, followed By
the Concord les knots, while the slow
est, probably, is the Petrol, of n.i9, al
though the six composite gunboats. OF
1909 tons. are only iequired 10 make i
knots. l77-ton CAstine ana Machias make
about 15lh and lG knots respectively the
lIght-draught Helena and Wilmington, OF
l.n2 tons. are expected to make H. and
the Nashville. OF 1871 tons, II knots,
The special class includes the liSs-toi
Dispatch hoqt, Dolphin the Bancroft and
the Vosuvus; While a torpedo cruiser pro
vldnd for by congress has not yet been
built
or our ten torpedo boats three, the Cush,
|
thr others Building. The highest speed
~, knots Is expected from the NV Her
reschnff pair with &c knots from the
Seattle boat, 2i'a from the Baltimore trio
and q from the Ericsson. The speed OF
the Cushing is set down at 22ia knots and
thnt Of the Stietto at lS.22, While the
Holland submarine boat IS to give eight
knots for six hours when completely sub
merged.
Our six-ton unarmored vessels are the
Alarm, laid up in ordinary, the Alert, the
Monocacy, the Michigan, the Pinta ant
the Ranger. Our wooden vessels IRE thC
Adams. Alliance. Enterprise and Essex
Of 1873 tons each, the hartford Of 219O
the Lancaster of $3.50. the Marion ans
Mnhican of 1870, the rhetis OF 1850, anc
tho Yant!c of 800. Some of these vessels
carry good modern batteries. the Alliance
, end Essex having six ralpd-fve four
! inch guns, the Hartford 10 rlpld-hre five
inch, and the Lancaster az hve-inch, o
. which 10 are rap,d-fre.
our wooden sailing ships are the Con
Stcllation jamestown, MononS lhela
= Portsmouth, Saratoga and 81, Mary s
. our tugs are the lwana, Mark eeta, Triton
. Unadlla, Wahnets, and one not We
nutnpd all If steel the trprtuue. Ipydcn