The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-05-13
RsHrps ON AND NEW.
Mr.. Henry w. Raymond's Lecture Before
the Naval Battalion.

the Naval Battalion.
A citizen writes: A large attendance
attended the lecture given under the
auspices of the Naval Veteran associa-
ton and First Division Naval Battal-
ion at the Hyperion Monday evening.
The lecturer, Henry w. Raymond, Yale
go, spoke on the subject of "Warships
Old and New" and not on 1.-THE ". S.
Navy, Old and New" as was previous
ly announced.
This lecture has been very highly
commended wherever it has been Civ
EN- and is a thoroughly interesting and
instructive one in every respect The
views of the various warships, ancient
and modern, were especially fine and
made the lecture very realistic The
speaker was frequently cheered by the
audience as portraits OF famous old
heroes and ships of the navy were
shown, and commented upon
The origin of warships has been
traced back as far as $500 B. C. The
savage crossed the stream on couple
of logs pushed together. and by con-
tinual gradations men came to use use
RATS, canoes, triemes, quinquiremes,
and galleys with even as many as nine
or ten hunks of oars Oars continued
to be the chief motive force until the
seventh century, and the boats
thus propelled We're admirably equip
ped and handled, and some were fitted
up in the most luxurious manner. The
dragon ships" of the Mortimer were
so called because of the dragon heads
on their prows and were good sailors.
The first naval voyage, of which we
have any account, was that of the
Argonauts in 1868 B. c. This was
probably nothing more than piratic-
al enterprise.
The modern navy dates from the six
tenth century. In 1887 the first three
deck warship was built, and this class
Of ships continued to be the finest
among maritime nations for some time
The supremacy of England on the
ocean dates from 1888, when they de-
feated the Spanish Armada.
The colonies had no navy at the time
of the Revolution, but Paul Jones won
distinction as naval commander In
the privateer ships which he command
ed
In 1898 our difficulties with France
led us to build up a navy which proved
Of service to us in the war of 1872.
The war of 1912 is the only one in
our history. In it our sailors wcr
great glory by defeating the English
in all but three engagements.
The introduction of steam warships
| dates from 1874, when Fulton First
was built. This vessel ultimately blew
up, killing many, and SO proved more
destructive to friends than foes
| The civil war was not a naval con
! f1ict simply for the reason that the
| Confederacy had no navy. Only three
naval battles were fought during it
but the U. 8. navy maintained an eff.
| cient blockade.
| The use of iron first and then O.
| steel revolutionized naval warfar,
| again, the construction of our owl
navy dating from 1885,
The lecturer gave some very interest
| ing explanations of the equipment ant
| operation of modern ships, their arma
ment, the working of torpedoes an6
the methods of protecting the vessel
| from torpedo attacks He also burned
some smokeless powder, such as tn,
u. s. will soon adopt in it's navy
Three hundred pounds of this explosive
equals 500 of ordinary powder ant
burns without smoke, leaving no res
/ idue whatever. The energy whicl
| would be generated if all the guns OF
such a shin. as the Massachusetts wer,
| fired at once would equal that of fifty
/ seven engines of fifty-fve tons each
running at the rate Of a mile a min
4 ute
Italy has the largest warships, AM
three things may be noted about these
/ they cannot carry enough coal to eros
the Atlantic, could not enter our har
bors if they did cross and the nava
reserve would not let them return |
/ they ever reached here.
/ We at present have some of the fines
ships afloat The San Francisco wa
called the handsomest ship in the nava
display at Kiel, and we have the swift
est cruisers afioat.