The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1898-10-04
ANEW WARSHIP.
Illinois, Most Powerful Vessel of the
Navy, to Be Launched Tuesday.
Length on Load Water Line 36S Feet,
Beam 72 Feet aH Inches, Normal Dis
placement 1895 Tons, Loaded,
1898 Tons, Draft 25n Feet

OOAOSA, Chcrc Will BIluo OH the
ways at the yards of the Newport
News Shipbuilding Co., the biggest,
most powerful and probably the most
generally effective battle ship in the
United States navy. This will be the
Illinois, which is expected by the naval
designers to be a worthy god child of
the state whose name she bears
Larger by thousand tons than the
Oregon; larger than the Iowa, now
the biggest battle ship in service, the
Illinois is still so designed that she
will be able to enter any harbor open
to the smaller battle ships, while in
the matter of speed she will rank with
any of them.
The dimensions of the Illinois are
as follows: Length on load water
line, 36S feet; beam, extreme, ~ feet
20 inches; draft on normal displace-
ment of II. 525 tons. % feet 6 inches
Maximum displacement, all ammu
milton and stores on board, IL, $50 tons;
maximum indicated horse power (esti-
mated, 10000; probable speed, 16K
knots Normal coal supply, 500 tons,
coal supply, loose storage, 1000 tons.
The main battery will consist of
four 13-inch breech-loading rifles in
Hichborn balanced turrets oval in
shape and placed in the center line of
the vessel, and IA 6-inch rapid-6re
guns. The secondary battery will
consist of 16 6-pounder rapid-fire guns,
four 1-pounder rapid-fre guns, two
Colt guns, and two field guns. She
will carry four torpedo tubes. The 49,
inch guns have an arc of fire of 135
ter line, and the 6-inch an arc
of 80 degrees on the broadside,
with the advantage of those on the
upper deck of a direct fire ahead and
astern. Any injury to or near either
of these siX-inch guns, will be con-
fined to its own compartment, as Il
inch steel splinter bulkhead separates
each of these guns from its neigh Dor.
The armor belt, which extends from
the stem to abaft the after turret, is to
be 1619 inches thick at the top and
81 inches thick at the bottom, eX-
cept at the forward end, where it
will be tapered to four inches at
the stem. This belt armor will eX-
tend from four feet below the normal
4 load line to three and one-half
: feet above it, and will maintain
the full thickness amidships between
the turrets, and for the distance occu-
pied by the engines and boilers. dag
onal armor, 12 inches thick, connect
ing this belt armor and barbettes, and
extending from the slopes of protect
i've deck to top of the side belt on each
side is worked to give protection from
a raking fire. Abaft the after turret
the protection will be completed by
thickening the protective deck to
inches on the slopes, with 2% inches
on the fat. On the slopes of this deck.
forward it is inches thick and 2% inch
es on the fat. The armor on the 13-inch
gun turrets will be II inches in front
and ID inches on the rear and sides;
while on the barbetteS for these tur-
rets, which are circular in shape, will
be Is inches on the front and 10 inches
on the rear and sides. The sides of
the vessel above the belt armor IN
wake of the siX-inch battery, and
forming the casemate, will be armored
with So inches of steel, extending be-
tween the turrets, with diagonal armor
of same thickness at the ends, con-
Meeting with the barbettes, and worked
above the 12-inch diagonal armor below.
She will be prot ected against the en-
trance of water, in case of injury to
the side at the water line, by Golfer
dams extending for the length of the
vessel on each side, and having a gen
eral width of three feet, with total ca
pacity of about 10, 500 cubic feet, for
stowage of fireproofed corn-pith
cellulose. Independent of the
numerous small water-tight pock-
cts or cells forming the entire
scheme of cofferdams, the inner bot
tom and hold, the platforms, splinter
and berth decks, are divided into be-
tween 200 and 500 water tight COM
partments, both for the accommodation
of the motive power and storage of
coal provisions, ammunition and
other stores; and also for the preser-
walton of the ship in the event of rup-
ture of the.outer skin, or injury in bat
tie.
The first keel plate of this vessel was
laid February 10, 1897, not quite 20
months past, and the percentage OF
work completed to this date. based on
the vessel fitted out and ready for sea,
is now reported between So and 81 per
cent The contract price was 81, $685.
600, and the date of completion is stat
ed to be October s. 1899
Mad Dog Killed.
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