The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-12-06
LAUNCH OF THE BAILEY.
FIRST TORPEDO BOAT DEs1ROTER
BUILT IN THESE WATERS.

The Little Flyer Also Has The Distinction
of Being the First of Her Kind Con-
structed After Purely American Design
Expected to Make 30 Miles an Hour.
Tho United States torpedo boat destroyer
Bailey was successfully launched at noon
Yesterday from the yards OF her builders the
Gas Engine and Power Company and Charles
L.. Seabury & Co. consolidated. at Morris
Heights on the Harlem. A special train
from the Grand Central Station took out nine
teen car loads Of guests to the launching and
altogether Their wore about three thousand
persons on hand to ace the boat slid into the
water. A band OF music added to the gayety
OF the occasion. part Of the throng
Of people was taken out into the stream aboard
barge. and when oil was ready Capt Purdy
gave the word and lfty men made merry
music driving home the wedges that lifted the
vessel into her launching cradle from the
blocks on which sho was built. When all was
clear Capt. Purdy blew q blast on boatswains
whistle. the clamps that held her from sliding
were unscrewci and the Bailey Rlidcd slowly
into the stream without hitch.
AS she started on her Journey down the ways
Miss Florence Is. Bailey. n granddaughter OF
Rear Admiral Bailey, exclaimed: Il christen
thee Bailey" and broke a bottle OF American
champagne on the port bow OF the vessel. The
vessel took the water with her bows dripping
wine and the band playing tho Star Span g cd
Banner" With Miss Bailey were her sister
Mary de p. Bailey and their father Edmund 3.
Bailey and dozen or more others.
The launching OF tho Bailey IL notable for
two things. She Ia the frat modern war vessel
To he launched in New York waters and she Ia
the first vessel OF the torpedo boat or torpedo
boat destroyer class built upon designs which
are purely American from stem to stern. All
the others are from designs borrowed from
naval builders abroad. The Bailey Ia one OF
tire" boats q her class authorized by the act
OF Mareh 3, ls,I. She is built on plans fur,
10 "p max Il ,S so E S0 is Hn hour ShS j. aOl feet
4 Oh" wa. l;unchsd " sSe weruhDS S' about 5n
l2n tons. hu' when completed which will he in
be- tour ton. 9th IS ton. Ss T
N a. hsr cr1isias weight with 10 tons OF coal
having ia own separate ;unnp' TIE two en-.
g'ncs VIII have an Indicated horse rower o.,
2'MD ana VIII drive twin-screws OF bronze
s.5rT,ascn' Tyre, Win cylInier. q 70 40, aud
make 400 revolution. a minute, unhsT a boIlsr
engines Will bo riacsd amid-hip with the
boilers in pairs fore AMI aft Of them
j nc nul IL i-lnth stesl, with Plates hnl
frames galvanized below the water line.
turtle back about sixty feet long covers tho
how back to tho forward coming tower The
forward tower contains the steam steering
gear and the one an Sepa' ate hand scoring
gear In II. On top Of each tower will he
mounted a b-pbunier rapid-ilrc gun and two
others OF Ike size will lie mounted on Ieck
am fshtr. one on each side.
The Bailey will Also have three inch train
aolc tubes for h'schgrgirg Whitehead tor
l"dNe4. Tho bottom Of tn" vessel is ~ q single
thickness Of pln'-s. bur she will be- protected
against rapid sinking by Ave transverse bulk.
heads.
The bailey will carry n COMPANY NJ forty In
cuiinR seven off'cers md ri ght engineers The
gnartrrs for the crew forward will be provided
Win told M berths aud the wardroom Tor tho
onlce will h. fitted M In white mahNIang with
Pnl, IN car berihs folding upAsainHt the aide.
~ the bont. ~ cruising speel II 10 calculated
that the Bailey Will have u stenming ra !ius Of
300 m ilcs, and her ru'Ido-s believe that she
VII make fair sea hoai. Sha IL named after
the late Rear Admiral Thcohorus Bailey Of tho
nlicd states Navy. who commanded The gun
boat Cayrga and led the advance column when
Ea'rRglt ron nv forts JackSNn and 81 rhinp
below New Orleans on April -. 1872 His
'Nm ", In recognition Of he honor ot having
the Bailey namei after him. have had silver
vessel