Morris tribune., 1898-06-22
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Facts About Our Navy.

Italy rank ahead in the order named.
Germany and the United States are
about tied.
Our present effective fighting force
consists of four battle-ships OF the
first class, one battle ship of the
second class, two armored cruisers.
eighteen cruisers, fifteen gunboats, six
double-turreted monitors, one ram.
one dynamite gunboat, one dispatch
boat, one transport, and eight torpedo
boats.
The Iowa weighs nearl y twelve
thousand tons, and as twenty rs the
average load of freight car, and
twelve cars is a good load for loco
motive engine, it would take fifty To-
comotives to haul the great steel
structure.
The powder used is brown, and in
chunks the size of caramel A
charge for the biggest gun weighs five
hundred pounds, and is hoisted to
the breech by a derrick, the powder
being sewed up in burlap bags.
Our battle ships have a speed of
from fifteen to seventeen knots an
hour. Cruisers make nineteen to
twenty four knots, while monitors can
travel only five to seven knots.
The biggest guns in the navy are
forty-nine feet long, big enough for
man to crawl into, four feet in diane
ter at their largest part, and weigh
one hundred and thirty-fve thousand
pounds, or thereabouts.
Some of the guns of the navy can
fire a shot twelve 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, 56l, $40.
This is larger sum than has been
expended in any year since 1866.
The fastest vessels in the navy are
the torpedo boats Porter and Dupont,
each of which can travel twenty-seven
and five tenth knots an hour.
Battle ships cost from $2,5OO,OOO to
S3,75OOOO, and cruisers from 100000
to 100000. A good torpedo boat
costs over 100000,
Battle ships are for the heavy
work; cruisers.for commerce destroy
ers; monitors are useful only for coast
defense.
The Indiana.could lie outside Sandy
Hook and throw twelve-hundred
pound shells into New York at the
rate of four minute.
Those artists. who show smoke in
their pictures of naval battles are
wholly wrong. Smokeless powder is
used. .s
All of the cruisers are named in
honor of cities, and the bsttle-ships,
except the Kearsarge, in honor of
states.
Marines are the police on board
ship. Originally they were employed
to prevent mutiny among the sailors.
A big battle ship has on b ard an
electric plant capable of lighting a
town of five thousand inhabitants.
Great Britain has two hundred and
ninety-four torpedo and torpedo boat |
destroyers; Uncle Sam has only eight.
Five hundred and twenty six men
and forty officers are required to man |
the cruiser New York.
Battle ships are covered with armor |
of nickel steel flom five to seven inches
thick. Behind the heavy srmor there
is a padding Of either corn-pith or CO.
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We have four ermored battle ships
tho Indianal Iowa. Massachusetts
and Texas. 7
A submarine torpedo boat, to be.
known as the Plunger, is under con-
suction.
At present the total enlisted force
Of the navy militia is 1870 officers and
men.
It costs veAundred dollars every
lime one of the big guns on board a
ship is fired.
The Brooklyn and the New York
are our armored cruisers. /
Sailors are paid from SO 20 to $3.50 |
per month, and board.
An act of Congress in 1872 apol-
shed fogging in the navy.
A captain in the navy ranks with
colonel in the army.
We have theonly ram-the Katah-
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