Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-03

gency is provided for in the interior ar
rangements of the vessels.
Another splendid ship in the Spanish
navy is the armored cruiser Emperador
Carlos V. In external appearance she re-
sembles closely our armored ship the New
York of the same type, though the Span
lard is a trihe larger, being 800 tons to
the New York's $500. The Carlos V. car
ries two ll-inch guns, in barbettes ten
inches thick; eight 5la-inch rapid fire guns
and four finch rapid firers, together with
a powerful secondary battery of rapid fire
six and three FOUNDER guns. Her protect
i've deck is six inches thick and her sides
are partially plated with two inch steel.
The coal supply of this ship-nearly 1,S00
tons-is worth noticing. 1t should enable
her to make easily 10000 miles at a ten
knot gait. The Carlos V. is not yet en-
tirely ready for sea, but can be made so in
short order.
The brooklyn.
Armored cruisers are designed to fight
one another at sea, but they are to act
as the heavy detachments of feet rather
than be the main body.
We have in our navy two armored cruis-
ers quite like the Carlos V.-the New York,
| of $500 tons, and the Brooklyn, of $500. The
| latter is the better ship in nearly every
way. She carries eight S-inch and twelve
5-inch guns to the New York's six S-inch
| and twelve 4-inch. The armor of the New
York--inch on the sides and 10-inch on the
turrets-is thicker than the corresponding
3 and 3-inch of the Brooklyn, but the
| latter's protection is the more modern.
Still another fine type of the armored
| cruiser class is that represented in the
| modern Spanish navy by the belted ship
| Infanta Maria Teresa. Four of these ar
mored ships are now in the water and
nj q Wpl n in hon
| Their principal characteristics are as fol-
| lows: Armament, two 9.45 guns in barr
| bettes and ten 5.5-inch rapid firers. Pro-
! lection, a belt at the water line, twelve
| inches thick along the central body of the
| ship. The barbette armor is also twelve
! inches thick. The coal capacity of 100
| tons should give a steaming radius of
| 10000 miles at ten knots.
| In our service there is no class of YES
| sci corresponding to these efficient cruisers.
which were designed especially TO protect
! the Spanish colonies. and are in every way
suited for this purpose. In our service the
| only approach to them is, in the point of
| size, to be found in our second class battle
| ships, the Maine and the Texas, of 1000
and $500 tons respectively. The former
has four 10-inch guns in turrets ten inches
thick, and the latter has two 12-inch guns
in 1O-inch thick turrets. Both have six
6-inch guns, in their main battery.
Some Peculiar Types.
Besides these types OF second class bat
tleships we have in our navy some other
types peculiar to ourselves. We possess,
for instance, one armored ram, the Katah-
din, of 200 tons-ne:ther Spain nor any
other power owns ship like our ram
and we have five double-turreted moni-
tors. the most powerful being the Puritan,
OF 5000 tons. She carries rourteen-inch ar
NOR on her sides and turrets, and carries
an armament of four 12-inch guns and six
4-inch rapid fire guns. The Terror, the
Amphitrite. the Monadnock and the Mian-
tonomah are of about half the Puritan's
size. Their armor is eleven inches thick
and their guns are 10-inch pieces. These
monitors are essentially coast defenders.
in smooth water and for harbor work they
have proved themselves to be the best of
types. Spain has nothing like them, and,
excepting Russia, few naval powers nova