The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-12-25
LAUNCH OF THE MACDoNoUGH.
swiftest Torpedo Boat DESTROYER
ChrIsteaesI by Miss Reude.

ssviftest Torpedo Boat Destroyer
ChrTsteael by Miss Reufe.
The torpedo boat destroyer MaeDon-
cugh was launched yesterday. at the works
OF the Fore River Iren Company, at East
BTaintree Mass. being christened by Miss
Lucy Charlotte Marlborough Reaie.
The Marlborough is to be ore Of feet
of 30 craft Of the same kind. The length
OF the boat is 242 feet while the entire
breadth Of beam is only % feet. The yes
sal is Il fest deep from deck TO keel an
has a displacement Of 40 tons. She draws
e feet inches OF water. No part Of the
Marlborough is armored save the forward
coming towers. which are covered With
three Quarterback nickel steel.
The engines ere projected only by the
coal bunkers. watch extend 100 feet amid
ships en- either side. and which have a ca
pacity for l. GtoRs of seoal-Sufiicjent 10
plavide a speed of il miles an hour for.
4.te0 miles. The outer hull is OF one-half-
inch steel plates. The vessel however. is
built with u separate watsr-tight COM
partments. There are two coming tow-
ers- Accommodations are provided for a
crew OF so officers and men. The SIP
presents the innovation Of having the ofa-
eers' quarters forward and those of the
crew aft Underneath the living deck and
forward Of the boilers is ater-tight
deck.
The two engines, which are expected 10
give the (MacDonough a speed of 80 knots
per hour, are of s. 40 horsepower and of
the 4-cylipder type.
The total CRATE surface of the two wa
ter tube boilers is S15 square feet. and the
heating surface is 1865 square feet. The
high-pressure engine cylinders are %
inches in diameter, the intermediates
pressure cylinders 81 inches each, and
the two low pressure cylinders 81 inches,
while the stroke is of 20 inches. The CYL
inders are OF gun iron.
The so-eslled turtle-back protection
from seas runs from the stern, intersect-
ing the coming towers and extending IN
the form of q bGlwark 90 feet abaft the
towers. A clever device of the MaeDon-
ough is an arrangement of telescoplrg
masts mounted on the .arwa-d bridge, 20
which the searchIight is fixed. These
masts can be SHOT UP in a second, and as
quickly lowered
The armament of the Marlborough viii
consist OF four 14-pounder 3-inch rapid-fre
guns and three 6~pounders. The two IS
inch torpedo tubes are located In the
stern, one forward and one aft OF the
after coming tower. The after one viii
be used TO discharge the torpedo when the
vessel is swinging away from the object
of attack. and the forward one will be
more for a broadside FIRE. The spare tor
pedoes will be stored in watef-tIght cases
with water-tight covers, one on each side
of the deck, Iocated so that they can be
lifted by cranes 10 the torpedo tubes di-
=rectly from the cases.
The cost of building was $2sI. zoe, and
the compaI has guaranteed speed OF
thirty knot
The MaeDJnough was named in honor OF
Capt Thomas Marlborough. L. S. u. who
vas attached to the Philadelphia under
Captain BainbTidge in the expedition
against TripoI il 1853. He escaped cap
ture at the hands Of the Moers when his
vessel was taken, and in 1891 he Was enc
of the party under Decatur that recap
tured and destroyed the Philadelphia.