New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-02-19

| pally as a dispatch boat carrying messages be-
tween the Navy Yard and the guard boats.
AS the Vizcaya drops anchor IN the
Upper Bay In the North River Lieutenant
Dougherty. in full uniform and representing
Rear-Admiral Bunce will board the cruiser and
convey the usual courtesies extended foreign
vessels of entering American port. and
will also explain what the patrol is there for
Lieutenant Neville Of the Marine Corps will
be in charge Of the thrty-six marines who will
be Quartered on board the Nina.
THE SHIP AND IT'S OFFICERS.
Captain D. Antonio Eulate is the vessels COM
| mander. The other officers are Leutenant-Com-
mander De Fuenteos. Lieutenants Suanceas,
Ristori, Magoaz Pazos and Cugo, and Chief En-
gneer Fontela.
The Vizcaya, which is a sister ship OF the
Infanta Maria Teresa and the Amrante
J Oquendo. is OF the finest and best ves-
sells owned by Spain. She is an armored cruiser,
! but is equal TO a second-class battle-ship
| Her displacement is 900 tons. and she meas
! ures $40 feet long 50 feet BEAM and has a
! draught of 21 feet inches. Her hull Is built
/ Of mild steel. and well subdvded. with double
| bottom and bulkheads. Her armor belt is II
inches thick below the waterllne to the depth
of four feet. and Is inches above Her two
barbette turrets each containing an / 1-inch
| breech- loading rife. are of compound armor 101
inches thick. The coming tower. containing
| compasses, teiegraphs and voice tubes is pro-
| tested by Pinch steel-faced armor. She has a
! protective steel deck from end to end. inches
thick on the fiat and 3 inches thick the
slopes. Besides the two big turret Hontoria
guns. she has ten broadside SO inch Hontoria
guns, eight 22-inch rapid fire guns. and eight
! 1.4-nch rapid-fre guns. The broadside guns
ard md aft in
sponsors. giving them fore and aft range
She also has eight fixed torpedo tubes for
launching fish torpedoes, six above the water
line and two below. Her bow has the regulation
ram and the stern tapers to point She has
two tunnels and two signal masts. with fight
ing top each She has two sets Of engines,
of the triple-expansion. vertical type, which
drive two screws, and under natural draught
develop 1900 horse power. and under forced
draught 1900 with which she is designed to
make eighteen and twenty knots respectively,
and she is credited with having made twenty
one knots Her normal coal capacity is 200
tons. She has complete pumping and ven-
tilating equipment. and is lighted with 460 in
candescent electric lamps. The cruiser has also
three searchlights, each Of 20.OOO-candle power
Her complement Of officers and men number
900 She built by Sir Charles Palmer's
Anglo o-Saxon Company. In Bilbao. In 1881. and
cost S3.000,OOO.
THE PROPOSED VISIT TO THE NAVY YARD.
The following is the text OF n letter written by
Arturo Baldasano Consul General OF Spain at this
port to Rear-Admiral Bunce announcing a con
templated visit TO the Navy Yard:
New-York, February II. 1898
Rear-Admral Francis NJ Bunce
Commandant Navy Yard,
Brooklyn n. Y
Sir:
1t is with pleasure that ! announce to you
arrive al New York this week and the comma ander.
accornDanied by me. will have the pleasure 10 pre-
sent TO you his compliments. go
For this ! will appreciate very much II you Will
be so kind 10 let me know Which VIII he the
best hour and day for TO call. -
! take this opportunity 10 show you. Mr Ad-
roIral my deep sympathy the terrible accident
which happened TO your fine and ill-fated Maine
In the port Of Habana.
/ have the honor 10 remain.
Respectfully yours.
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