Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-03-23
A SEA TERROR.
Batt|eship Iowa To Be One Of
Worlds Greatest WarShips.
She Is Almost Ready to Be Launched
from the Cramps Yard.
A Mighty Fighting Machine monitor Size
and Up 10 Date.

Washington, Mafch
| One Of the greatest wafsiips III 'ho "oriu
will be launched from Cramps yard at
| Philndelphia in few days. She IL the
Iowa and n first class terror Of the seas she
| g. III. ,v ~ nrove The Iowa renresents I'm
| s.,'. .,,,, ord do,.u cha ,,oaor,
A'"'' 1T. ,.
arr Vi 'a''io7"ip - - 80 o'
| to comprehend INC potehtiai power Oh thiH
lilgh'y hghtih2 ihhcHihe' lilaeihe'
| you can, munster OF whlte aspect, "bo
| feet long, ~ feet broad, sitting ~ feet in
| the water, and weighing l1,410 tons
| poyn i'm ,be hold of this great croft AN
army Of coal beavers and flremen will
| shovel fnel into 10 ya,yninp glariny
| mouths The steam Tins Generated is
used in almost innutnernhle WAYS 1'bern
| will be no fewer than a hundred engines
| in the Iowa when she Is finished electrIcal
and hydraulic used for the niIrnoses of
r,ising ,nrbor. taking an ana disrbar,iny
| stores bripcing am,n,,nItinn from tho
| ,non,9i,,a. ~ ia e,reat ems ,,rniu,, liz
t,,r,,.te e,vir,,ip, tho r,dder di.ch,rt,in,
| osI,ce frl,n, tho dretoxes ljf,irn ,nJ In,,.
erIr,. thn sbin.s ho,te bea,ir,, ,,nd drrin,
every nool and Granny az the buu Mn.
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mo ,,raat ea,,rchIi,,b,s nc vii fr.a9i,,o
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III eN4'''i'o'' - tht Aree use tiiaO HAS neeh
iii'ue SPon Ht' nun % 'i'at "ohueFluI
,i''i,'' " i'i'"'iihS s.Vei 10 any Teq"i'eu
uep'" MIN ~, a a. 'l'o HarN 4~ih2 arll'oF
pFoec'N. Inns great Invention Is OF Amer
i0aii ot1Si'i anu ueNeioiiiieht, ana us use
~ lhely 70 pace American shlps III the
van VI "ii ""rsh'ps' 70 iAf as tho hportaht
feature Oh arihor = concerned
~ !" h'N"i NesSei ono noiiofS ana engines
- '''o mo- "ii1Iii s4Neo 'ier INV
rected from the euemvss tirc AT an b,1ords
. II is upoo this Soma of thu br;,htsst in
yentiye minds If tbe world have ,yorl,e1
for wears The GREAT desire il tn oet do.
fpnsn resietanca In si,o, ,vitbout too ,n,,cb
weight The race that is going on ali tho
time between rho inventors Of ,r,,or ana
the builders of guns and DESIGNERS of NH.
siIes is one of The most intareetin, tbin,s
in modern mechanics The harvey nrocecs
nnnpars ia have mt fine nr,nor n,il,ors
few lans ahead In ina Iowa , b,pd If
this harvevized eteo, IA incbne thicl- r,rs
nearly oronnd ,ha shin on ,ba wo,or In,
4 feet ahoye and AK feet baloy that limo
TINS nrotectino tho boilers and macbinerr
In addition Ia his protection which il M.
loved to he stronv enougb Ia cton tbn
greatest shot an enemy con fire. III IL. shin
is re-enforcement of the coal hunkers nnd
over all a protective deck nearly 3 inches
thick of harvevized steel strong enouoh
to stop any shot from getting through in
that way. Above this II inch belt Of sire,
is armor plate ) inches thick. and thu
naval architects are willing 10 risk tbair
reputation that no missiles from any war
vessel now atloat will ever find their way
into the machinery of the Iowa
How yyo,aors,, ro..,
.d. 80 'io 10y we in.'li, features vi Ihe
~ no'0I'iDo - a,oni ""op'eu ioi 'niS snip
~ ~ - .;.ti i,u"iiy "s stcei
s s,ie OF cue wien,n n, SNIP anu wilhih
ms aio pi'oo' az 'i'e 'i'ai l'.irts' suci
do ,iio ih'0iinef5 anu 'ho "ppiiihces ior
',."nhaaS n $50 80 49, 'ne ."ito'S
,,.;,h;,, .,,;,, ana ;-,,,,,'1''hia '.'ia sH'p
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS al, n,.,1aN, 80, -,
$500 Is 80 .'i' si'o