The evening Republican., 1902-06-21
II Tori edo Boat Launched.

WIN tNc Whistles O!OW!np, ana De.
fore large attendance tie torpedo
hoat destroyer Hull constructing al
tie yards o' the Harlan and HClIlngs-
werlh Company took her initial
plunge INTO the ,ChrlsHaEa at nocn
to-day. 1t was just 20 O'clock
when Uncle Sans new craft gliding
from the ways and there was not II
hitch in the arrangements which hod
been made for the launch.
The Hull was chrislened by Miss
IIull, who is a descendant Of Ad miral
HUI in whose honor the craft is nam.
Jed. Her home is in Newton. Mass.
but at present she is visiting friends
in Washington D. c.
Miss Uull, together with other
members OF the christening party,
number OF government
representatives and naval officers
arrived at the French street station
in special Car before noon.
The party was met by ullicials of
The Harlan and Hcllingsworth Com
parry and escorted to the yards. Fo!.
loving the launch. luncheon was
served in the mould loft.
The Hull is Il sister craft Of the
Admiral Hopkins which was laGnch-
cd by the Harlan and lIolingsw0rth
Company two months ago.
The construction of the United
torpedoboat destroyer HUH was auth
orized by Congress IN !h. act approx.
cd May 4, 1898, and the contract for
her construction was sigued with the
Harlan and lIo.lingsworth Company,
October 1898. She is 24j feet long.
% feet extreme breadth, and at feet
G inches, mean draft d spaces 40S
tons. The design in It's general
features follows the English type OF
boat, but it is not u c.ose copy OF
foreign pans, as has been the case
with the designs Of some other boats
now building. She has four Thorny.
croft water tube boilers, designed for
300 goInds pressure exhausting into
four stacks. The engines are twin
crew, vertical inverted. four cylinder,
triple.cxpansion 20!x32x3SX3S by %
inch stroke, designed to indicated
about 5000 horse power, which drives
the boat to the guaranteed speed OF
30 knots per holr. Her allowance OF
coal at her normal draft Of water Is
At tons, and her bankers vii! stow
20 tons
She carries an unusually heavy
battery for boats OF her class, as IN
addition to two deck discharging
tubes for Is inch Whitehead torpe.
does she mounts l2-pounder and 5
6.pouhder rapid fire guns, one on top
OF each OF the two coming towers
and the other i've on the deck be.
tween the coming towers. The 9th.
GERS quarters aft consist OF cabin
and stateroom for the captain.
stateroom each for the executi We
officer and engineer, and mess roo m
abaft which IL u pantry and bath
room.
Forward Of the captains quar- ters
is a compartment for the jackev and
fonr berths for the petty officers, and
one with six berths fur mach;n:s Is.
Forward OF these is the fremen's
quarters with twelve berths. For.
ward CT the fremeu . quarters is the
two engine rooms. occupying the full
width of the boat, and the boiler
compartments and coal bunker are
forward and abaft OF engine room.
Forward of the engine boilers is the
galley and then the crows quarters
with thirty folding berths, and in the
extreme bow the windless compart.
ment
The torpedoboat strlngham will
probably leave the yards Of the
Harlan and lIollingsworth Com.
pany this morning Tor the Barre n
Isl and government course 10 the
Chesapeake bay.
The destroyer Hopkins, which
left the yards OF the company last
Saturday evening 10 now at that
place and both craft will be given
speed tests 10 the near future Cap
tain lie wis will have charge Of the
stringham on her trial trip out to.
day.
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