The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-09
GEORGIA WILL
BE A FINE SHIP
AN HONOR TO THE NAVY
WILL BE THE VESSEL TO BEAR
THE NAME OF THIS STATE.

Governor Terrell and His Party, In
Guiding Miss Tate, Who VIII BE
sponsor for the Georgia, Are in
New YOrk-WiII Leave in Time to
Reach Bath, Me-, on Tuesday,
The Launching of the BattIeship
Will Take Place at That City.
New York. Oct. s.-Gov. and Mrs.
Terrell of Georgia. Congressman Car
ter Tate of the Ninth district, Mrs.
Carter Tate, Miss Stella Tate, sister of
the congressman: Judge and Mrs.
Hamilton McWhorter of Athens, and
Miss Camilla McWhorter are here to-
night, Ell route for Bath. Me-, where
they go to represent the state when
the battleship Georgia is launched on
next Tuesday. The party reached
New York this morning. Gov. Terrell,
Congressman Tate and Judge Nc
whorter visited the Democratic head
quarters and discussed the national
campaign. The Governors party will
reach Bath Monday night, will par
ticipate in the exercises on Tuesday
and will leave Maine Tuesday night,
arriving in Atlanta on Friday morn
ing, Oct. IA.
One of Three Great Ships.
The Georgia is one Of the three bat
tleships authorized under an act of
Congress, approved March 3, 1899, and
is a duplicate of the two battleships
authorized in 1900. Bids for the five
ships were opened at the Navy De-
partment, Nov. Is, 1900, and in Feb
ruary, 1901, the Bath Iron Works was
awarded the contract for the Georgia.
The four sister battleships Of the Geor-
gla are the Virginia, Rhode Island,
New Jersey and the Nebraska.
The Georgia has a trial displacement
of $1,000 tons. She is 435 feet long, 76
feet 10 inch beam, and will draw "A
feet of water under trial conditions,
with an extreme draft of 26 feet, when
fully loaded and equipped with stores,
coal, ammunition. etc.
The hull has "A cellular double bot
tom, and is divided into about 225 wa
tertight compartments. Her armor
consists OF "A main belt extending the
entire length of each side of armOr II
TO 4 inches thick. The upper casemate
armor, and the athwartship armor is
s inches thick. The 12-inch turrets
and barbetteS are covered with 1O-inch
armor, the S-inch turrets and barbettes
with 6-inch armor. The coming tow
er is 9 inches thick, the signal tower s
inches thick, and the gun protection
and splinter bulkheads are from TO 3
inches thick. The total weight Of the
armor is about 300 gross tons. The
vessel has protective deck throughout
her entire length and breadth at about
the level Of the waterline.
All the vitals of the ship. that is
the motive and steering power, togeth-
er with the electric light plant, are
below this deck. and consequently be-
low the waterline.
In addition TO this protection, the
Georgia has a complete belt of Golfer
dams at the waterline which are filled
with cellulose which has the charac-
teristic Of promptly swelling to several
times It's original bulk when wet
thereby stopping any hole made by
shot.
The Fighting Machines.
The main battery consists Of four
f2-inch ech-loading rifles eight s.
inch breech-loading rifles, twelve g.
inch eech-loading rapid nne rifles
twelve 3-inch brooch h-loading rapid FIRE
rihes, twelve 3-pounder guns, four l.
FOUNDER automatic guns four 1-pound-
er single shot guns, two 3-inch fleld
guns, two machine guns and six au-
tomato guns. The Georgia - also
Continued an si&th PaKA.