Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1899-09-02
Trial Trip Of Morgan Tugboat Ell
Amigo to Take Place.
GOES TO NEW YORK TUESDAY
VIII Leave sh,pyard With the Battleship
Kearsarge. New Warship Almost >
Ready for Her First Voyage. Two
Guus Are Yet to be Mounted.

It was announced last night on good
authority that the new Morgan Line
tugboat, lei Amigo, Will leave the ship
yard on her builders trial trip this
morning at O'Clock and will return to
the yard about noon.
Like all other vessels sent out by the
yard on their first trip, the little
steamer will be tested outside the Vir-
gini;. Capes. No very extensive trail
of the tug is necessary and she will lnot
so out again until she is turned over
to her owners.
This tugboat is being constructed
for the Morgan Line for use in New
York l1arbor and she will probably
leave for that port next Tuesday. She
Will go out, it is thought, at about the
same time that the battieShip Eear-
sarge leaves. .@N
The first-class battleship Kearsarge
has to receive only her two after S-inch
guns before she will be ready to go out
on her builders trial trip next Tues
day morning. The forward superposed
turret of the battleship has been COM
pleted and the two 13-inch guns and
two S-inch guns will not have to be
taken out again. II the ammunition
was aboard the ship the Kearsarge
would be ready to so in action today,
as far as the forward guns are con-
lcerned. IA
The two 13-inch rifles for the after
| turreJ are in position and by today
turret are in position and by tomorrow
| it is probable that both of the S-inch
| guns for this turret Will be put on.
| Every day for the past week the en-
tsines and boilers of the btlttes1ip have
been tested and it can be said authori-
ta:ively that they are in splendid con-
dition. The bunkers of the ship are
filled With coal and She now carries
about all of her final weight with the
exception Of the small guns Of the sec
ondary battery and her ammunition
and stores. n"
When the Kearsargc goes out on her
builders trial trip she will be put to a
test which Will be genuine and not a
farce like the trial Of the hattleship AL
ALBANIA by the Cramps last Monday.
! The trial trip of that ship amuses ma
val men very much 1t is very evident
| that the vessel was only sent out in or
| der to enable the Cramps to say tina t
| they gave her i trial before the trial
| Of The Kearsarge. work on Which was
started nearly 4 year before the Ala
bama was put on the ways Unavod-
able delays caused principally by the
government. We're responsible for the
tardy completion of the Kearsarge, but
she is finished now and her trial trip
Will be That OF finished battleship and
not ship in the incomplete state the
| Alabama was last Monday.
| 1t is stated authoritatlve1y that the
Alabama has Yet to receive in the
neighborhood of 1000 tons Of Weight IN
larmOr and guns and that when she is
Finished she will be about feet deeper
| in the water than she is now In her
Hight condition the Alabama averaged
l6 IA knots on her trial. although for
one mile she made II Ii knots. The
lresult is likely TO be much different
with the additional weight in armor,
lguns, etc. M-
Some Of the side armor for the bat
tleship Illinois arrived at the shipyard
this week. This ship may be given her
dock trial in a month or six weeks.
The Morgan Line steamship I'll Norte
has been placed in the dry dock for the
Hast time. On Thursday she Will have
her trial trip and on the following Sat
Iurday she Will leave for New York to
go in service.
The schooner Jennie c. May was
taken out Of the dry dock yesterday.