Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-04-06
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tors can travel only five to seven knots.
The biggest guns in the navy are 49
feet long, big enough for a man to
crawl into; feet in diameter at their
largest part and weigh 135, 800 pounds
or thereabouts.
There are six rear admirals in ac-
tive service. The Offices of vice adj
miral and admiral are untitled, so there
is no head of the navy excepting Sec
retary Long.
Barnacles form on the hull of a ship,
impeding its speed. A six months
cruise will decrease the speed of ship
Is per cent, and it must 90 into dry
dock.
Sixty,one merchant vessels belong
to the auxiliary navy. These saIps
are subsidized and by contract must
be given to the United States on de-
mand.
Some of the guns in the navy can
fire shot 90 miles, farther than a man
can see, for the guns are aimed and
sighted by machinery.
The amount expended by the navy
department in 1897 was $34 1861 $40.
This is larger sum than has been ex-
pended in any year since 1866.
In battle the woodwork and all
articles of wood are either slowed be-
low or thrown overheard lest the men
be injured by splinters.
The origin of the navy department
may be said to date from October 13,
l775, when congress authorized the
equipment Of two cruisers.
The fastest vessels in the navy are
the torpedo boats Porter and Dupont,
each of which can travel 27.5 knots
an hour.
Battleshps cost from S2,500,000 to
SO, 100000, and cruisers from $780,
900 to s3,OOO,OOO. A good torpedo
boat costs over 100000.
Battleships are for the heavy work
cruisers are commerce destroyers
monitors are useful only for coast de-
fense.
The Indiana could lie outside Sandy
Hook and throw 1,200.pound shots
INTO New York at the rate Of four a
minute.
Those artists who show smoke in
their pictures of naval battles are
wholly wrong. Smokeless powder is
used.
All of the cruisers are named in
honor of cities, and the battleships,
except the Kearsarge, in honor of
states.
The "grog" ration was abolished in
1868, and since then the crew has been
forbidden to drink while on duty.
Marines are the police on board
ship. Originally they were employed
to prevent mutiny among the sailors.
The guns of a battleship can carry
from 6 to II miles, hurting a shot
weighing half a ton.
Only 60 per cent. of the enlisted
men are Americans, and smaller per-
centage yet are native born.
Projectiles thrown by naval guns
are shaped much as the bullets shot
by the ordinary rifle.
A big battleship has on board an
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town of 5000 inhabitants.
The boilers of the Iowa have heat
ing surface of eight acres and hold 80
tons of water.
Great Britain has 294 torpedoes and
torpedo-boat destroyers. Uncle Sam
has only eight.
Five hundred and twenty-six men
and 40 officers are required to man
the cruiser New York.
Battleships are covered with armor
of nickel steel from to 7 inches thick.
We have four armored battleships-
the Indiana, Iowa, Massachusetts, and
Texas.
A submarine torpedo boat to be
known as the Plunger is now under
construction.
AT present the total enlisted force of
the naval MALTA is 3,SO7 officers and
men.
Behind the heavy armor there is
IA padding of either corn pith or cocoa
husks.
1t costs $500 every time one of the
big guns on board Il ship is fired.
The Brooklyn and the New York
are our armOred cruisers.
Sailors are paid from $3.50 to $3.50
per month and board.
An act of congress in 1892 abolished
logging in the navy.
The American navy has practically
all been built since 1888.
A captain in the navy ranks with
colonel in the army.
The oldest iron vessel is the Michi-
gan, built in 1874
Five batllcships are now under con-
StructiOn.
We have the only ram-the katah-
din.
The ships are painted white.
THE GIRLS MEN ADMIRE.-They
admire the girl who is her mothers
right hand in household matters, and
who is not above taking an interest in
the most trivial matters in connection
with house duties.
They admire the girl who is bright,
entertaining companion, and who has
ever a kind word and pleasant smile
for all with whom she comes in con-
tact.
They admire the girl who is always
neatly gowned, no matter if in mex
pensive materials, and who never
dresses loudly or in questionable taste.
They admire the girl who can adapt
herself to any society, who never puts