Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-04-27
BATTLESHlp OHIO
Another Powerful Addition TO Our Great
and 6TuWlng Navy.
Special to the Leader.

will be the battleship Ohio. the launch
ing of which President Mckinley an,
Cabinet are to witness, and she is ex
pected to join the squadron of Real
Admiral Casey before the close of thu
present year.
n sister ship of the Maine, building
at Cramps, and of the Missouri, build.
ing at Newport News, the Ohio will
represent the most advanced stage ol
naval development and will have nc
equal afloat as gun platform. Her
battery will be marvel of power, and
while her guns will not be mounted in
superposed turrets, she will have mos.
effective broadsides.
The occasion will be the first where
: any distinguished persons of the Gov
ernment have witnessed launches on
the Pacific and the Ohio will be the
first warship the President has seen
launched.
The Ohio Is 3sS feet long and p feet
extreme beam and on draft of % feet
6 inches displaces 1920 tons.
The hull is protected abreast of the
boilers and engines by a side armor
belt extending feet 6 inches above
the load-water line and feet below it,
having a thickness of IL inches for
depth of feet inches, tapering to
~ inches at the bottom of the belt,
and by the casemate armor inches
thick which extends from the side belt
to the upper deck and is worked from
the center of the forward to the CEN
ter of the after barbette.
In the casemate are placed 10 of the
six-inch guns. Above this, on the up
per deck, four of the six-inch guns are
placed, in the vicinity of which six
inch armor is worked far enough for
ward and aft to afford protection to
the crews of these guns.
-rotection is afforded the vitals of
the ship below the water line by pro-
tect1ve deck worked fiat within the
casemate and with slopes forward and
aft of it. Cofferdams are built on the
protective deck from the diagonal ar
NOR bulkheads to the bow and stern
in the vicinity of the water line and
on the berth deck for nearly the length
of the vessel. All of these cofferdams
are filed with cellulose.
The main battery will consist of four
twelve-inch guns, placed in two bal /
anced turrets, and 16 six-inch rapid !
fire guns.
The turrets are turned by electricity 4.
and the motors used for this purpose
can revolve one of these through 300
deg. in one minute. The aImor of
both the turrets and barbettes is u
inches thick.
Ten of the six-inch guns are within
the casemate, two others are on the
berth forward in siI-inch armOred
sponsons and four on the upper deck.
Those in the sDonsons forward and
two on the upper deck can fire directly
ahead and the other two on the upper
leck can fire directly astern. in addi-
ion TO having broadside fire.
The secondary battery consists OF
iix three-inch rapid-fre guns, eight
iix-pound rapid-fres. six one-pound
'apid-fres. two Colts and two three
zen rapid-fire field guns.
A new feature introduced in the Of
ensive power Of this Ohio is the sub
merged torpedo tube While they are
.ot new abroad, German warships
!ayfng been equipped with them for a
lumber Of years, the Ohio class is the
irst Of our navy TO be supplied With :
hem Prior 70 her construction :
many vessels Of the navy were fitted
With torpedo tubes above the water :
inc The Ohio will have two Of these
IOes, one On either side, situated =
bout 20 feet from the bow and about =.
3 feet 8 inches below the water line. =
The magazines and shelIrOoms can
TOW 80 rounds Of tzeIye-inch ammu-
itiOn. 3-zlJ rounds Of siI-inch ammu- :,
itiOn. S.s15 rounds Of six-pOund and :.
go rounds Of One-pOund ammunition. :,
he forward magazines are Iocated !.
Immediately forward Of the dynamo :
1Oms and the after ones just abafr the !.
agine rooms
There the tEO military masts fitted
ith the usual signal yards. tops and L
,pmasts; tTO tops are built 70 each Of Q
iese masts- The ermOr OF the for j
ard coming tower L 10 inches thick 2
I'd that Of the after OF signal tower
s inches thick A steel tube L in
-es in diameter inside and : inches IN
-iekness extends from the fOrEzrd
'Hning tower down 70 the protective ~
sek- and protects the ice tubes and !.
legTaphs from the Commanding Of
? 70 the important stations in the =,
sSseL
The Ohio Eil carry Il boats, q :,
hieh Oae Is 2 fOEty-fOot steam cutter :,
q anOIker = thirty-siI-foot steam :,
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