The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-14
THE ATLANTA AND RALEIGH.
Descriptions of the Two Cruisers,
Their Equipment and officers.

Descriptions of the Two Cruisers.
Their Equipment and officers.
The following description Of the cruis-
ers Atlanta and Raleigh are official. hav-
| ing been furnished from the navy de-
partment at Washington.
The United States steamship Atlanta IS
a steel cruiser 2S3 feet long. AZ feet beam,
| drawing II feet Of water. She has a dis
| placement Of 31s9 tons, and her sail area
| is 1900 square feet She was built at the
shipyard of the once famous John Roach
of Chester, Pa. and she is a sister ship TO
| the steel cruiser Boston. The protective
| plating over her engines and boilers IS in
| two thicknesSeS OF thirty pound plating,
making a thickness Of about IL inches.
| The armor shutters or bars are fitted 10
| all the hatchways in the protective plat
| ing, the shutters about ~ inch thick, ana
| the bars inches deep ana Is men thick.
/ The captains cabin is at the fore end or
| the superstructure, and the WardrOOm
has twelve state rooms.
| The main battery of her armament con-
| sists of two S-inCh and six 6-inch breeca
| loading rifles. Just forward Of the st1)er-
| structure, on The port side, an S-inch gun
| is mounted in a barbette feet high ana
2 inches thick, having a train of from 30
| degrees abaft the beam on the port side TO
/ 30 degrees abaft the beam on the star.
| board side. Just abaft the superstructure
on the starboard side Is an S-inch gun In
a similar barette with similar train for
ward the beam.
broadside, one forward in the starboard
angle of the superstructure, shifting TO a
forward or broadslde port, and one aft
in the port angle Of the suDcrstructuro.
The secondary battery consists of two six
FOUNDER rapid-tire guns mounted IN
broadside ports; two 3-poUnder rapid-fire
guns, ana two AZ mtllimeter revolving
cannon in towers; two 1-pOunders on TOD
of starboard forward and port after tow
er; 81 milhmeter revolver in each toy,
and two Calling on rail mounts.
The motive power is furnished by A
three cylinder compound horizontal back
acting engine. Tho high pressure cylin-
der is 81 inches in diameter, and the low
! pressure cylinder "a inches in diameter;
stroke AZ inches. There are eight horizon
tai return tubular boilers, II feet inches
IN diameter by feet inches long. Crate
| surface is SS2 square feet. She is capable
of making from Is to Is knots per hour
on steady run, and her coal bunker ca,
The officers of the Atlanta are: Capt.
i. J. Cromwell, commanding officer; Lieut.
Commander o. d. Taussig; Lieutenant c.
w Bartlett Lieutenant r. Hunt, Lieu
tenant b. II. Walling, Lieutenant John
Hood, Ensign H. p. Jones, Ensign NJ II.
Signor, Ensign T.. Symngton, Naval Ca
det l.. b. Jones, Naval Cadet X. Ii. Os-
born, Naval Cadet G. E. Cielm, Naval Ca
Diet c. England, Surgeon d. N. Bertolette
Assistant Surgeon J. NJ. Moore Paymas-
ter ]. b. Redfeld, Chief Engineer ]. S. Og-
den, Z. A. Engineer W. NJ Parks Naval
Cadet ENG. Div) II. /. Cone, First Lieut.
of Marines b. II. Fuller Gunner (Acting)
Pay Clerk +. G. Hausche. '''''
The United States steamship Raleigh is
twin-screw steel cruiser. with heavy pro-
tective deck, great speed and heavy bat
teries of rapid firing guns. She was built
at the Norfolk navy yard. She has poop
and forecastle deck with an
open gun-deck between, and
bridges along the tops of the ham
mock berthings connecting the poop
and forecastle. She is 800 feet long BEAM
~ feet draws IS feet of water, her dis
placement is 3lSS tons, her indicated
horsepower is 10000 pounds and her speed
The protective deck slopes at the side
in two slopes of p and 800 degrees. 1t is
first covered with plating one-half inch
| thick and two-inch plate is worked on
this on the slopes amid-ships reduced to
one and a half inches at the ends, and
half-inch plate is worked on the hori-
zontal part, making the decks total thick
| ness two and a half inches on the slopes
| amid-Ships, two inches on the slopes at
| the ends, and one inch on the fiat. A
Cofferdam is worked along in the wake of
| the water line next the outside plating in
! the coal bunker on the slope Of the pro-
! tective deck. This is filled with woodte.
| Her engines are triple expansion, verti-
! cal, inverted and direct acting, with a
| high-pressure cylinder thirty-siX inches,
| and intermediate fifty-three inches. and
| two low pressure fifty-seven inches In di-
ameter, the common stroke being thirty
| three inches. The collective horsepower
| of propelling air-pump and circulating en-
| gines is 10000 at 164 revolutions. The con-
| densers have each 1000 feet of cooling
surface There are four double-ended
| boilers and two single-ended boilers to be
used as auXiliaries, placed in four water
! tight compartments. Her coal bunkers
have capacity for 556 tons, but her nor
! NAL supply is about 400 tons.
Her main battery consists of one 6-inch
! and ten 4-inch rapid fro breech-loading ri
| f1es on center pivot mounts. protected by
| thick steel shields worked as part of the
| hull The 6-inch gun is mounted on the
| forecastle. The 4-inch guns are placed on
| the poop, two under the poop in Sponsors
w 81 10 In md
| the other four, two on a side, in sponsors.
| The secondary battery consists of two s.
| Founders, two S-pounders one 1-pounder,
| and two 81 millimeter revolvers,
There are six torpedo tubes with openings
! about feet above the water, worked from
| the berth deck, fixed tubes forward and aft
| and the other four which are training
tubes, are placed at the sides on the for
| ward and after berth decks. The tubes are
! of the Howell pattern using gun powder
! impulse, device much superior to the hy-
| draulic or pneumatic telescope hammer
| sometimes used.
Her rig is that of a tWo-masted schooner
| spreading 1910 feet of sail. The masts are
| barbette galleries for machine guns lust
| below the tops. The boats are slowed in
| board, out OF the line of the fire of the guns
| on skid beams.
In addition TO the lights furnished ty
| numerous matches ports and side lights
! there is an installation of electric lights
| the plant consisting of two engines and
| two dynamos so arranged that either dy-
| namo can be connected with any or all Of
TIE lDCdllsltStNlil VI liSlN CIRCUITS. Inc NN-
! namos produces with 400 revolutions Der
| minute, a constant electro motive force OF
| 50 volts, measured at the poles the dyna-
mos each have capacity Of geo ampercs
| She Is also equipped with three search
! light projectors of the Mangin tyne An
| exhaust system of ventilation is provided
| worked by powerful blowers, and pipes are
let down from the upper deck for suppiy-
! ing fresh air.
The officers of the Raleigh are: Cant
| Merrill Miller, commanding officer; Lieut.
| Commander William j. Barnette Lieut.
| c. s. Richman, Lieut.. J. NJ. Boyer Lieut.
| W. +. Pullman, Lieut.. Herman G. Dresel
| Ensign Albert NJ. BeeCher. Ensign C3eore2
| r. Cooper. Ensign Luke McNamee, Naval
Cadet Charles Webster, Naval Cadet viii
! liam F. Scott Naval Cadet Walter $. Tur-
/ pin, Naval Cadet George l.. +. stone sur
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