Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-10
STRINGHAM Is LAUNCHED
Fast Torpedo Destroyer Added to the Amer
lean Navy.
CeremOnY Witnessed by Many Dis
finguisbed YisitOrS-Miss Creigh-
ton Christens the New Fighter.

NlLMlSGTON, Del, June 10.-The tor
pedo poatn Stringham, which the Harlan
ana Hoillngsworth Company is building for
the government, was launched this after
noon at lbs o'clock. Miss Edna Nina
Strlngham Creighton, granddaughter of the
late Admiral Stringham and daughter of
me late Rear Admiral Creighton, gave the
vessel its name. Miss Creighton was
Drought by special car from Morristown
n. J.
The spacious yards of the builders were
thrown open to the public in honor of the
occasion. ard thousands of spectators
awaited themselves of the opportunity to
witness the interesting event.
Ihere were guests from New York. Phila-
deiphla, Baltimore and Washington, who
were entertained at noon with luncheon in
the mold loft. The Washington party COM
priSed Charles II. Allen, assistant secretary
of the navy; Major General Nelson A. Miles
ana Wlfe, Rear Admiral Hichborn and wife,
Judge Advocate General Lemly Captain
lawson, Naval Constructor Spear and wife,
Naval Constructor Taylor Rear Admiral
and Mrs. Endfcott, Civil Engineer A. b.
Cunh1ngham. Lieutenant Commander ]. NJ.
roper and wife and The French naval at
tache.
BaifimOreans Join Party.
At Baltimore the British consul Mr. Fra
Ter, joined the party.
Inc New York party included Superinten-
dent j. L. Daliett OF the Red d Line r. p
Bolton of the Plant Line. John English of
the Maine Steamship Company, a. W.
Fletcher of the W. & A Fletcher Company.
Lieut.. Commander ]. f. Fremont, SD
pervisor of the harbor of New York;
charles A Could, president of the Gould
Coupler Co; Horatio Hail. superintendent
Nam steamship Co; Fl. S. Hayward, sup
r,,,r liz
railroad; Capt. j. w. Miller, president of
the Providence and Stonington Steamship
Company; Donald Stuart, L. S. Standard;
stevenson Taylor, vice president w. "a.
FIetcher Company; Aaron Vanderbilt and
II. W. Miller, president Morristown Savings
Bank.
The Strngham is the largest and most
costly torpedo boat designed for the gov
eminent, and upon completion will be the
pioneer of the ocean-gong boats of her
class. Her guaranteed speed is thirty knots
an hour. The construction of the vessel
was authorized in March, 1897, and the
following July the contract was awarded.
Her keel was laid March u, 1898. Her
length is 223 feet breadth, y feet; mean
draught, feet u inches, and displacement,
$40 tons. This is seventy tons more than
the Farragut aud twice as large as any
other American torpedo boat built or build
ing She will have two vertical triple eX
pansiOn engines of, combined, 1,20J horse
power, which is greater than that of the
cruisers Detroit and Montgomery, 2,JDo-ton
ships, and nearly twice as great as that of
the Atlanta 1And Boston.
The Stringh@m wall have a bunker ca
pacity of 100 tons of coal, which will en-
able her to steam straightaway over 1900
knots. u -.
Her armament will consist of two eigh-
teen-inch Whitehead torpedo tubes and
seven siX-pounder semi-automatic guns,
and will he ioughtI by complement of four
officers and TWEEN weight men The yes
4 \ Ia
ton Stringham, who died in Brooklyn at
the age oftseventyeigh years, after a
service of siXty-styen years in the navy,
starting at the age of eleven as a midship-