Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1901-08-03
new BATTLESHIP
MAINE is LAUNCHED
An Immense Crowd Watches the
Vessel Slide Down the Ways
at Cramps.
NOT MUCH LIKE THE OLD SHIP
Nearly Twice as Large. With n More
Powerful Armament Than the Ala
bama, and n speed Two Knots
Faster.

tleship Maine was successfully launched
by the william Cramp ship and engine
buiIdinq comnanv today. An immense
a,o,.a ,.t.rosaaa 80 caranony
N ~
II IL now three years anu ihore siio.
the tragedy In Havana harbor, anu
since then the survivors have been
scattered IN all quarters NJ the globe.
o.. - ;. a. "a - so,,,a nroc,tcoh 10
~ -, . - /" 80 a,o
the nav! uepdItlheHt aliaHs0u W H"
all who are still In the service present
al the Invitations were is
sued TO the antilles OF those who were
La. -, - Me- ga 90 ,ha fam
iU'' WIN "e ""l"v' "lu -.
mes OF the SURVIVORS Oaptalh onaiie
ID. Sigsbee. who commanded the Maine
at the time OF her destruction, has ap7
plIed FOR fbe ommand of the new
Noiro "a ., :. - .han uLaIy thar
$50, $50 80 80
the request WIN DC srah'eu'
or the twenty-five officers who were
attached to the Maine at the time %
her destruction four are dead. two
lcs,,n thoi. a.. a. ~, .roaadv con
,"e Wv" w. :" ''"'
tam SlSspee, VINO was given coihiial'i
Oh the 81. Paul when the war broke
out, is now chief If the naval intelli-
gence office I'm Washington. His most
aatcio,, o,e, uautanort NJ rho Maine
ti'N'e'' -" '"o 49,
l-ieutehahI COMMANDER hi'halu WAN
wright, he who commanded the Glou4
ccster IN tEat bloody reprlsal OH san
tago, Is now superintendent or the
IaVal academy at
strnctor tn cndets ia rJentana1t Iobp
Uond ,rotbar oF tha Nance ola ofi-
,aro sill another eurvivor IJeuten-
AMI & w JIinpeng whose work during
tbe var as cntnn,a - Tor the Wom9
natuck ELECTED warn nraisa from the
navy denartnant Is nov attached IN
Inc hottIaebIn Knorsarge ChanIain
John p. Chidwick. whose name is rev
cred Inv Mi is now chanIain of the
c,uiser New York aagsbip of the At
Lntic station. Among other survivors
who are now serving on ships cruising
IN the far off waters are Lieutenant c..
f.. ". Holma Ensigns Bronson and
Boyd, Paymaster Charles NJ. Ray,
Lieutenant Commander T.. G. Bowers
and Lieutenants Washington and Cren-
shaw.
Captain Of Marines A. w. Catlin is
now stationed at Port Royal. s. -.
Surgeon Heneberger is doing duty in
the naval laboratory In Brooklyn. En-
sign Holden is attached to the cruiser
Buffalo, which recently arrived from
Manila; Ensign Cluverius is at the
naval academy, Boatswain Larkln Is on
the Dattleshlp Kentucky, Gunner tilll
is stationed In san francisco ana car
penter Helms at Thurlow, ia, Lieu
tenant George +. BLOW recently re-
signed from the service
Not Much Like Old Ship.
Between the new Maine and the old
are few points of resemblance. The
first was rated as a second-class bat
tie ship with a displacement of only
G,6S2 tons. Her namesake is nearly
twice as large, displacement IL, 300 tons
at normal draught.
The principal dimensions Of the new
battle ship are: Length betwee per-
pendlcuIarS' 5SS l"eti length over all,
o." reef we lnch'S, extreme preau'h'
= re- Iueah uIuusnt, 20 Ieel . lhCneS:
uiap."''lhent q. nuiulal uIaush'' i-,oVV
,ohS' tSllnia'eu uIsplaoelheht AT luIl
ruau ul"usnl; lA,'oV IONS; AS 70 '!pe'
,lt ne" NtSS'l - 10 ne al iihpIoVeu ga
p'uIa' tWo MOI IaStei 'nah lhe ilie
pd.'ie SNIP WIN d more pow
erlul h~rhlannent ana heugeu amour Win
. SIedtcr urea Oh "IHior pIolSctlon'
IN the cohtract II - stipulated that
SHe must Oh ner "Uic-al trial MAINTAIN
u Spetu VI elehte'" hhots lor lour coh-
SerutlNe hours.
me arihahleht eSishe LOT 'ne YES
SCI Is -" very poWer'ul SNe. IT VIII con
Ni@t VI ioul tNen'-'h'h nIeeci lohulhB
IlieS mounted an PAIRS IN t"o eiilpti,
'al pa!"hGeo Lui!S'S one lormaru anu
'ht Az IN auul'i!H tiere VIII ne SIX
,e'it Sl"-!nVh rap" nie EuhS mounted
III %proauSlue, SIN lourteeh-pouhaers'
elshl p~ouIueFS SIX
l"o Oh autoiia'' ana TWO tnree-lnch
iaplu hre nero guns IN the Maihe the
l"u'te'i- pounueI lEpe Oh ape IRE gun
WIZ De InStalled LOT the nrsl tlme on
an American Datue snip. Ihere are
TWO submerged torpedo tubes on the
SNIP the Maine class being also the hrst
tubeS nave been placed below the water
me
Krupp Armour throughout.
Erupp armor &c IN no used through-
( out. The armor belt. which Is to be
| eleven inches thick at the ton. taper-
ing 20 seven and 4 half inches at the
bottom, extends 70 within sixty feet
Of the stern, shielding the sides three
and a half feet above the water line
and four feet below 1t. The easement
armor is To be six inches thick the
harbette armor twelve inches in front,
tapcring to eight inches in the rear. The
inches thick, Whila aft, where there is
no belt armor protection, il is thick
ened, being four inches on the slope
and three on the fiat.
The forward coming tower will have