The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-05-13
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tools and equipping her with cranes
| and other requisite apparatus. 1t is
understood that the other two vessels
have already been selected, and no
time will be lost in preparing them for
business. Some of the mechanics that
will man them will be taken from the
! government gunshops and navy yards,
and they will have expert knowledge
of gun-carriages and the gear of guns.
On warship the guns are worked by
variety of complicated mechanical
devices, including air-compressors, hy
droulic lifts, steam turning-gear, cleo
trio turninggear and pneumatic turn
ing-gear.
Such mechanism is apt to suffer a
good deal of injury in naval fighting
under moderate conditions, and the
guns would be rendered useless unless
their gear could be promptly repaired.
Goodness only knows what the Span
iards, ignorant as they are of such
matters, are going to do. This, as
above said, is going to be one of our
| greatest points of vantage over them.
| The repair ship will have no facilities
| for the mending of the guns them
| selves, If they are seriously injured;
| the only way to make them serviceable
again will be to send them back to the
| gun-factory. Much of their work will
!, consist in patching and renewing parts
of the numerous and complicated en-
gines which make UP SO much Of the
inside works Of a battle-ship or cruis-
err fighting vessel of the first-class
/ "a a civ "A ~,
and it's interior is cobwebbed with tel
egraph and telephone wires. Even in
time Of peace the engines are likely to
get out of order, and an entering shot
| will tear things to pieces in a fearful
way. OF course the machinery most
| essential for the actual working of the
| ship is covered by the so-called protec-
| tive deck, which Is a turtle-back Of
| steel dividing the vessel into an upper
story and lower story, SO to speak.
The upper story might all be shot
away, and yet the craft would con-
tinue to float, the lower story being
covered by the protective deck as by a
roof. Beneath the protective deck
are the boilers and other "vitals" Of
the ship.
/ L AS repair SIllpS Will have powerful
engines and good speed. 1t was stated
yesterday by Commodore Melville,
chief of the Bureau of Steam Engi-
neering of the Navy, that craft of
this kind could do wonders with a
damaged fleet in ten days after an en-
gagement, putting it into condition to
go into action again. The Importance
Of this function, he declared, could not
be over estimated, inasmuch as the
very life of the fleet might depend
upon it. If the enemy could make
their repairs before we could make
ours, and come down upon us ready
for another fight, where should we be?
Our business is to make it work just
the other way, and to be ready for the
Spaniards before they are ready for
us. To deliver blow AFTER blow in
quick succession is the way to make
this war a short ore.-Correspon
| Of the Boston Transcript.