New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-18
NAVAL ARCHITECTS MEET
Anson Phelps Stokes Shoes Plans
of mi-GIobular Battery.

The opening session Of the twelfth annual meet
ing of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine
Engineers was held yesterday in the societyr
rooms No y West Thirty-frst-st There will be
a morning and afternoon session to-day Eighteen
papers will be read during the meeting by expert
ship builders naval constructors, marine engineers
and naval officers. The papers will deal with mod
ern marine construction. particularly In regard to
men-of-war. The annual dinner tonight at Del
monico's Will end the meeting.
Francis T Bowles ex-Chief Constructor, L. 8 N
president Of the society and of the Fore River snip
and Engine Company. In opening the meeting sad:
The burning Of the excursion steamboat General
Slocum, with appalling loss of hte Will no ao4 1
IF +be Ell poFnst insnenfion service as already
dcated in the prompt action of the administration
portance involving large property trade inter
ests as well legal and technical questions of the
treatment from a fundamental basis, but this
only after careful study of the best practice the
ultimate effect Of all measures and the means ol
The naval architects and marine engineers OF the
produce the best battlsships armoEed cruisers and
of naval material in all its branches of ships. en-
gues boilers, electrical appliances, guns torpe-
This development is the result Of the public de-
mand for navy and The SomTluS19 9rbe tbev can
have one of the same quality, we can ouh9 La S7
one if We have PRACTICE and time Tine, IoT deVeophen'
and organization Many a6fS prove Hsrcbant marine
owned and operated by Americans, requires some
The first paper of the morning session was pre-
nared nv George w. Dickie. manager of the Union
IRON Works Of San Francisco. on Simple Methods
in Warship Designs Necessity. II was read Dy
Naval Constructor William ] Baxter, OF the Brook
Ivn Navy Yard. secretary and treasurer Of the
society.
Mr.. Dickie made many suggestions for the SIM
nIer arrangement of apparatus on war vessels,
which. in the discussion following the paper. were
considered too radical by several members
Tba omit
tery" read by Arson Phelps Stokes, associate
member of the society. Mr. Stokes is the inventor
of the battery, which was suggested by sight OF
Diamond Rock. off the coast of Martinique. The
rock which was rated by the British Admit
rally as sloop-of-war. did much damage to French
shipping when manned by 120 men and boys three
long Toms" and two 1S-pounders
Mr.. Stokes's battery Is patented in this and
other countries. He showed plans for vessel
of this type which he called the Cerberus He
said his system of elevating heavy guns by shift
ing the centre of gravity of the vessel itself per
nitted heavier guns and charges. Revolving the
vessel horizontally did away with the need of tur
rets and barbettes for heavy guns. The designs
Of the Cerberus submitted by Mr. Stokes showed
15-inch guns the gun deck Three turrets
had two Pinch guns EACH all capable of being
trained forward. and at least four of these could
be trained in any direction at the same time
There were eight 6-inch guns, twenty-five feet
long in the four galleries the gun deck and
numerous smaller guns the upper deck Add
tOna guns may be placed on the upper and prone
made decks There six torpedo tubes. four
forward and two aft. The diameter at base of the
Cerberus is $50 feet. The smallest battery Of the
sort invented by Mr.. Stokes is nearly sphere
and carries a single gun. The belt the
Cerberus is eighteen inches thick fifteen feet above
and seventeen feet below the load water line. at
thirty-six feet draught Her dimensions are: Height
from base of battery top of armored portion of
sInokestack. 30 feet; to top of coming tower. 81
feet; draught with full load Sc feet at light load
mo M faAr 1Chr
In the discussion which followed all spoke ia
vorably of Mr.. Stokes's invention
paper on the "Seagoing Battleship" was read
by Commander William Hovgaard formerly of the
Royal Danish Navy, and Professor of Naval
Design at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology. In summing up he said:
As result of recent developments we have.
sseag2lng battieshlp and an increased necessity
Arkansas to the Henry " already exist. oaiy the
meet the changed conditions.
The first paper read at the afternoon session was
Some Recent Experiments the United States
Model Basin by Naval Cons tructor D W Taylor !
of the Bureau of Construction and Repairs in
Washington.
Lieutenant Lloyd Horwttz Chandler o. s N.
then read Some Further Notes on the Perform
ance of the Torpedo Vessels of the United States
Navy" The next paper The United States Ar
mored Cruiser Colorado by Assistant Naval Con-
structor Joseph w. Powell U. s N. who assisted
Captain Hobson in the sinking Of the Merrimac at
Santiago. 1t a detailed description OF the
cruiser, which has just had successful prelim-
nary official trial.
The last paper read was "Coalng Warships at
Sea.Recent Developments" by Spencer Miller.
chief engineer OF the galloway department OF a
New-York manufacturing concern. He described a
marine galloway which has been put the Ret
vizan, the United States steamship Illinois, ten
vessels Of the Russian second Pacific squadron and
other vessels.
Francis T. Bowles reelected president. The
vice presidents elected We're Chief Constructor
Washington l. Capps L. :. N: Charles II Cramp.
Rear Admiral RObley ID. Evans. L. s N; Frank
l. FeTnald. I. s y; Rear Admiral Philip HIGH
II. Loring. L. s. N; Rear Admiral G. ". Melville.
L. s. N. retired, u w Quntard. Rear Admiral
Charles w Rae. L. S. N. EdwIa a. stevens and
Stevenson Taylor.