The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-30
THE TORPEDO BOAT
"BAGLEY" LAUNCHED
CONTINUED from First Page.)

was hung under the memorial tablet on
the boat with ribbons in the national col
ors.
Miss Bagley who is now travelling
abroad with her younger sister would
have christened the boat had she been at
home.
Mrs Bagley left this afternoon for
Washington. The others in the party will
remain guests at Hotel Phoenix until to-
| morrow.
After the launching lunch was served
| in the office of Gen SuDt. John S. Hyde
| of the Bath Iron Works
The Bagley is one of the three boats
| contracted for By the Bath Iron Works
| in October. '9S, the other two being the
| Barney launched last July. and the Bid
die to be launched in October.
These boats are designed to conform in
all respects with the circular issued to
| bidders by the Navy Department previous
to the opening of the bids.
Their principal dimensions are: Length
between perpendiculars, 1871 feet, beam
| moulded, II feet: depth at center amid
ships. 10 feet inches; mean draft of wa
ter on trial, feet inches; displacement
on trial 100 tons; speed on trial 1.-TWO
| hours) % knots.
The armament consists of three g.
FOUNDER S. A. r. F. guns and three tubes
for short 1S-inch Whitehead torpedoes
| Ample ammunition is carried for the guns
and there is provision for carrying five
| torpedoes.
There is a coming tower forward, made
of half-!nch nickel steel. with search
| light mounted on top of it. Coal bunkers
are located on each side of the boilers and
on ore side of each engine.
The propelling machinery consists OF
| two vertical triple expansion engines and
| two water tube boilers each in separate
watertight compartment.
| There are eleven large watertight COM
partments separated by transverse bulk
! heads. Some of these compartments are
further subdivided by longitudinal bulk
| heads, making a total of fifteen water
| tight divisions in all. The two compart-
| ments ut the middle of the boat are oc-
cupied by the main engine and their con-
! densers and auxiliaries. Just forward
| and JUS. aft of these compart-
ments are the boiler compartments, each
| containing one boiler and the usual fire
| room auXi!iaries.
The two compartments forward of the
| forward boiler are occupied Dy IHe crew,
while the one Just aft of the after boiler
| is devoted to the officers and the one aft
| of that to the petty officers.
| The boat is fitted with steam steering
| gear and steam windlass. There is also
an electric light plant of about sixty
lights capacity. Each OF these vessels
costs $161 900 to build.
| The machinery of the Bagley is aboard
and she will soon be ready for her trial
| trips TO be held under the direction OF
General Superintendent John S. Hyde. who
is now placing the speedy Barney in read
| mess Cor service.
beautiful memorial tablet of bronze
made by the Torrey Roller Bushing Works
has been presented the torpedo boat by
Mrs. Adelaide Worth Bagley. in memory
of her son.
1t has been placed on the starboard side
of the after coming tower. the position
occupied by the young hero when he was
killed on the Winslow.
Inscribed on the tablet is the following:
WORTH BAGLEY.
Ensign U. S. Navy
Born Raleigh, North Carolina,
April 6. 1874.
Killed in Action, Cardenas Bay Cuba,
TORPEDO BOAT WINSLOW,
May II. 1898.