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6-inch guns. This ship was hit with large
projectiles but six times. as it kept out of
range nearly the whole time passing the
other ships for protection and finally maxi
ing a run for it, The lists were made by
the Brooklyn and oregon. One S-inch
she'll went into the port side of the ward
room, and left on the starboard side
without exploding, but cleaned out every
thing in the room. A 5-inch hit just above
the armor belt, and a 6-inch struck her
on the bow None of the injuries was
sufficient to put her out of action, and
were not as serious as those received by
the Brooklyn, at one time her sole an
tagonist. The assertion that the Brook
lyn was oyerhauling her, and that the
Oregon's 13-inch guns were shooting
nearer and nearer and that escape was
impossible, seems to be the correct solu-
ton Of her surrender.
The Vizcaya armored cruiser of the
same class as battleships Texas and
Maine. Two 1l.5 inch guns and ten 50
inch guns, with projections 10 and Il
inches thick, double and treble that of the
Brooklyn. This ship was the special prey
of the Brooklyn and the Oregon, although
the Texas, after her destructive work on
the Oquendo and Teresa, aided a little at
long range. The Vizeaya. exclusive of
one Founders and rapid fire hits which
swept her deck was hit with large pro-.
jectiles fourteen times and by six-pound-
ers eleven times. The S-inch guns of the
Brooklyn and Oregon and the 6-inch guns
on the Oregon and 5-inch on the Brooklyn
tore her structure above the armor belt
almost into shreds, while the six Founders
and one-pounders made 1t too warm for
men to stand at the guns. The Texas got
a couple Of 4-inch shells. No. IS or Pinch
shells struck her
The Infanta Maria Teresa, the flagship
of the same build as the yizcaya. was
badly punished and was the only one
Of the -four ships hit by u or 13 inch
projectiles She has two Of that size
clean through her, and the position Of
one would tend to demonstrate that it
was fired by the Texas, the Indiana, Ore
gon and Iowa sharing the other one. An
S-inch shell undoubtedly from the Brook
lyn, because she was the only ship in
line with the Maria Teresa's head as she
turned west, entered just forward of the
beam on the port side and exploding in
side cleaned. out the deck. with four gun
crews. This is the shot that Cervera said
came from the Brooklyn and set fire to
the ship. The Teresa's great difficulty,
ana one that compelled her hurried sur
render, was that all her fire mains were
cut and she was unable to extinguish the
fires that were driving her men from the
guns.
The Almirante Oqueno, armored cruiser,
same class as viscaya and Teresa, went
through the most terrible baptism of fire
of any of the ships, except the torpedo
boats Her upper works We're one ragged
mass of cut up steel, and her decks We're
covered with dead and dying. She was
hit on the port side four times by S-inch
shells, three times by 4-inch shells, prob
ably from the Iowa, two times by 6-inch
and forty-two times by six FOUNDERS
The innumerable number of one Founders
that struck her show that she met the fire
of the entire fleet as She turned last out
of the torpedo boats that followed her
and the secondary battery shots intend
ed for them to hit her. When She turned
to the shore it was in a disabled condi-
ton.
One of the findings of the board of CUR
vey was that an s-inch shell had struck
the forward turret just where the gun
opening was. and that every man in the
turret was killed, the officer standing in
the firing hood being still in that position.
Another fact learned was that the tor
pedoes in some of the ships were directly
loaded IN the tubes and prepared 20 fire.