The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-06-05
THE CRUISER CLEVELAND.
Arrange nlents To Launch the New
NarsFsfD 4bouT FuIy II

Following the launching of the battle
ship Ohio, the cruiser Cleveland named
after the thriving municipality of that
. name in the Buckeye State. will be the
next naval vessel of note to leave the
ways. This new type of fighting machine
viii take the water at the Bath Iron
Works, Bath, Me, about July Is and will
he the first of her class to be completed.
The sister ships now under construction
are the Denver, Des AIOines. Chattanooga,
Galveston, and Tacoma
The Cleveland class is novel in one feat
Ure. being Sheathcd and CopperCd which
is Il radical departure In winning his
fight for the new protection for the bot
toms of naval vessels. Rear Admiral
Hichborn stood alone. but his arguments
and object Lessons finally prevailed The
Cleveland class Is about the size of the
Raleigh and the Cincinnati. but improved
and modernized In the latter vessels the
craze for speed at all costs had reached
the maximum, and TO attain this extreme
speed everything else was sacrificed The
experiment with the sheathed and cop
pe-ed bottoms viii be watched with in
terest as it is held that the Cleveland will
he able to make sixteen and half knots
and hold this rate for q year at time
owing to clean huh and no obstruction
The Raleigh and The Cincinnati were
built for a speed OF nineteen knots. but
only held this for a few months after be
ing tried, as the huIIs became befouled
and frequent cIeanfags did little good
1t IS claimed for the Cleveland that she
viii make a speed Of sixteen and half
knots all the time and seventeen knots
when pushed In the Cleveland 400 horse
~ Il 70
which 1O.03g horsepower failed to do ef-
Iectvely in the Raleigh.
The keel of the Cleveland was laid jan
uary l. 1900 and the contract price is 81
Oh $50 She will be 30S feet long. g feet
in breadth. and viii have an extreme
draft Of IS feet. s inches Her batteries
will consist Of ten 5-iuCh rapid-fre guns;
eight 6-pounders. two I-poUnders, and four
Colt machine guns
The guns are all designed for smoke
less powder and the 5-inch guns will be
more effective than the old 5-inch type.
Eight Of them viii be mounted on the
main deck in recessed ports The re-
naming guns viii be mounted behind
shields
The coal capacity Of the Cleveland will
be 100 tons. or enough to carry the vessel
at full speed for $500 miles At an ordi-
nary rate OF speed the coal supply would
last for $500 miles without coaIiug This
would be more than sufficient to carry the
vessel from San Fran cisco TO Manila.
Tie Cleveland viii have less wood ma
terial about her than any cruiser ever de
signed, and the small area which is used
VIII be fre-proof. Even the buIkheads |
VIII be of metal which has been treated
with nOn-magnetic process The vessel
VIII have two mastS with a sail area Of
5000 square feet. The cruiser Will carry
two searchlights, an electric sigma ling
system, and all Of the auxiliary rnachfn-
cry VIII be operated by electricity Each
vessel OF the Cleveland type viii carry
one thirty-foot steam launch The com
piemenJ viii he = officers - seamen
and , marines. Ohio VIII be represented
At the launching by Mayor Johnson. OF
Cleveland and It IS probable that Cover
nor Nash VIII attend the ceremony.