The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-06-17
THE NEW BATTLESHIP.

THE NEW BATTLESH1P.
 The Illinois, a sister ship to the Ala bama and Wisconsin, was launched a , the yards of the Newport News Ship building company October of las : year. She was designed in the Bureal
 of Construction and Repair. Her al mansions are as follows: Length ol
 load water line, 36S feet; beam. ex
 treme, 72 feet 1-2 inches. draught or
 normal displacement of 11,525 tons, 2
 feet 6 inches maximum displacement
 all ammunition and stores on board
 12,S25 tons; maximum indicated horst
 power. (estimated,) 10000; normal coa
 supply, 800 tons; coal supply, loose stor
 age, 1,200 tons; full bunker capacity ! 1,400 to 1,5OO tons; complement of of
 flcers, 40; seamen, marines, etc., 449.
 The main battery consists of foul
 thirteen-inch breech-loading rifles ir
 Hichborn balanced turrets, oval 1T
 shape, and placed in the center line oi
 the vessel, and fourteen sx-inch rapid
 fire guns The secondary battery con-
 sists of sixteen siX-pounder rapid-fire
 guns, four one-pounder rapid-fire guns, two Colt guns, and two field guns. She also carries four torepdo tubes. The thirteen-inch guns have an arc of so degrees on the broadside, with the ad-
 vantage of those on the upper deck of
 a direct fire ahead and astern. Any in
 jury to or near either of these six-inch
 guns will be confined to it's own com
 partment, as one and a half inch steel
 splinter bulkhead separates each of
 these guns from it's nelghbor.
 The armor belt, which extends from
 the stem to abaft the after turret, is 16 1-2 inches thick at the top and 9 1-2 inches thick at the bottom, except at
 the forward end, where it is tapered to
 4 inches at the stem. This belt armor
 extends from four feet below the nor
 mal load line to three and half feet
 above it, and maintains the full thick
 ness a.midships between the turrets and
 for the. distance occupied by the en-
 zines and boilers. Diagonal armor 12
 inches thick connecting this belt armor
 and barbettes and extending from the
 slopes of protective deck to top of the side belt on each side, is worked to give protection from a raking fire.
 | Abaft the after turret the protection | is completed by thickening the protec- tive deck to four inches on the slopes, with S-4 inches on the flat On the slopes of this deck forward it is three inches thick and 3 3-4 inches on the fiat. The arinor on the thirteen-inch gun turrets is F inches on the front and 15 inches on the rear and sides, while that on the barbettes for these turrets, which are circular in shape, is 15 inches on the front and 10 inches on the rear and sides.
 The sides of the vessel above the belt armor in wake of the six-inch battery, and forming the casemate, are armored with 1-2 inches of steel, extending be- ,tween the turrets with diagonal armor of same thickness at the ends, connect ing with the barbettes, and worked above the twelve-inch diagonal armor below. s'4L
 Independent of the numerous small watertight pockets or cells forming an entire scheme or cofferdams, the inner bottom and hold, the platforms, splin- ter and berth decks are divided into between 200 and 300 water tight com- partments, both for the accommodation of the motive power and the stowage of coal, provisions, ammunition, and other stores, and also for the preserva- ton of the ship in the event of rup- ture of the outer skin or injury in bat tie.
 There are some eighty odd auxiliary engines in the vessel, thus adding greatly to the efficiency of the ship, in the celerity and certainty with which the work can be done. The cranes for handling the boats are operated by steam; also the deck winches, pumps, windlass, and steering gear. This lat ter is located beneath the protective deck and several feet below the water line. The introduction of these aux Hilary engines is brought about mainly by the variety and nature of the work to be done and the demand for the lat est and best in every branch of me- chanics represented in a man-of-war. labor is therefore reduced to a condition of affairs which must result in a greater interest and development of the crew in their special duties, as now required in q modern bait leship, where fighting and all that leads up to thorough efficiency in that line of art not handicapped by the con- stant drudgery so universal in the old time vessels of our navy.
 The height of freeboard forward of the vessels hull proper is 20 feet, and at the stern IS IA feet. The floor of the pilothouse Is A feet high thus plac- Ing the eye of the steersman, for ordi- nary cruising, about 30 feet above the water. The sightholes in the armored l coming tower for use in close fighting l Ire 34 1-2 feet above the water.
 The new ship is equipped with two | sets of triple expansion, twinscrew en- | zines, each in it's own separate water | light compartment; the collective in- l Heated horse power is about 10000, | with 120 revolutions per minute; stroke, |
 feet There are eight single-ended | cylindrical boilers, each 15 1-2 feet in liameter by feet il IA inches long, laving a total grate surface of 6S5 auare feet, with 21,200 square feet of leating surface; pressure, 1S0 pounds. These boilers are placed two each in our separate water-tlght compart- nents. The smoke pipes are two in lumber, and stand abreast of each ther.
 The first keel plate of this vessel was aid February 10. 1897. The contract rice was $2,595 O00.-New York Times.
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