Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-10-12

The Georgia is one of the three bat
tleships authorized under an act OF
congress, approved March 8, 1899, and
is also a duplicate of the two author
lied and approved June z. 1900.
In February, 1901, the Bath Iron
works was awarded the contract for
the building of the Georgia, sister
ship of the Virginia, Rhode Island,
New Jersey and Nebraska, at a con.
tract price of $3,590,000.
The Georgia belongs to the most
powerful type of batt1eship afoat
and also to the largest class. She
has a trial displacement of $4,000
tons and is 435 feet long, rs feet, 10
inches beam, and under trial condi.
tfons will draw I'd feet, while she has
an extreme draft of 26 feet when fully
loaded and equipped with stores, coal
ammunition, etc.
The hull has cellular bottom and
is divided into about 225 water-tfght
compartments. The craft is fully pro.
tected by the best Of armor, having a
combined weight of 3,70O gross tons,
and which includes main belt ex
tending the entire length Of each side
from II to inches thick. The up.
per easement armor, and the athwart
ship armor, inches thick. The II
inch turrets and bardetts are GOV.
cred with 10-inch armor, the S-inch
turret and barbetts with 6-inch armor.
The coming tower is 9 inches thick
the signal tower inches thick and
the gun protection and plinter bulk
heads are and inches thick. There
Is protective deck at the water line
and below this is a complete belt OF
copper bands to protect the steering
gear and equipment, and which are
filed with cellulose, which promptly
swells to several times its own weight
when wet, thus stopping any hole
made by shot.
The battery of the Georgia con.
sists of four 12-inch breech-loading
rifles, eight 8-inch breech-loading
rifles, twelve 6-inch breechloading rifles
Of rapid movement, twelve 3-inch
breech-loading rapid fire rifles, twelve
S-pounder guns, four 1-pounder auto.
matte guns, four 1-pounder single shot
guns, two 3-inch field guns, two ma.
chine guns, and six automatic guns
There are also four submerged tor.
pedo tubes. There Is bunker ca.
! pacity of 1900 tons of coal, and the
Georgia Is equipped with the following
machinery: Two 4-cylinder triple
expansion engines, each driving one
bronze three-bladed propeller about
18 feet in diameter, each engine has
high pressure cylinder 35 inches in
diameter, one intermediate cylinder 81
inches in diameter, and two low pres.
sure cylinders sc inches in diameter,
| all having 48-inch stroke. The en-
| gines exhaust in two condensers, each
| having a cooling surface of about H..
| 900 square feet. There are "a nj.
| clause boilers installed in eight wa.
ter-tight compartments, having a to
tai CRATE surface of LAO square feet
and total heating surface of 57,22c
square feet This equipment will give
a speed of 19 knots an hour or one
knot faster than any battIeship now
in the service of the United States
navy.
Two 100-kilowatt generators and six
50-kilowatt generators will furnish the
electrical equipment for six 50-incb
searchlights, 1000 incandescents and
/ for every purpose for which electrici
| ty will be used. Important accessor
les on the craft include an eyaporat
ing and distilling plant for convert
ing salt water into fresh, ice plant
laundry, machine shop, electric sig
mailing communication throughout the
ship, telephone, wireless telegraphy
air compressing plant, complete coal
ing gear, electric switches, etc.
Both military masts with nghtInl