The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-06-29


! pride in its new navy. At the close
OF the Spanish war writes Lieuten.
ant Commander Walter b. Tardy, I.
/ 5. ~, i'm the current issue Of the En-
! gneerng Magazine the press and
/ the people were satisfied with their
navy. 1t has been successful, and thus
I efficiency was taken for granted But
when stock was eventually taken, the
/ small percentage of hits made be
came known. and naval officers real.
ized that something must be done tC
Justify the public confidence"
! The result of that realization is
what Lieut. Commander Tardy en-
bodies in his paper on scientific man
apemont and efficiency in the United
States navy 1T is not uncommon 20
human experience, ne observes. for
different eXperimeuters working at
similar rroblems INDEPENDENTLY and
without any knowledge of one anoth-
ers efforts. to arrive independently
and simultaneously at the same dis
coveries Something like this has hap
pened in the case OF the navy and civil
/ establishments for only since the
technical and popular press took up
the general discussion of scientific
management, have naval Officers be
gun to realize that their management
was of the kind now so strenuously
advocated for industrial pursuits Of
all sorts
This efficiency may be divided INTO
| three parts-efficiency of the tightju"
unit. or the ship: and efficiency Of the
/ fighting division or fleet Fer it IS
with fighting efficiency that fshting
machine. such as a navy is intended
to be, is first concerned. But the ef-
fort for efficiency has not been
bounded by fighting drill. important
economics have been won in engine
practice; the aim has been to make
engineering count equally with gun
merry i'm determining the final ship eff
fciency. Celebrity in coaling, and
economy in the stoke hold and engine
room, when translated into action
mean that given ship, run to the full
of her capacity, is able to steam just
50 much farther. to attain just so
much wider a cruising radius to clear
from port in a hurry just so much
quicker. to show just 50 much sreed
in desperate pinch, than the same
ship or her sister when slaclly Off
cered
Counting engineering equally with
gunnery in determining the final per
formance OF any ship-since TO work
her guns on enemy her energies must
first carry her into and keep her in
range-the navy set itself this stand
ard. as embodied in the rules for bat
tie practice, 1911, and quoted by Lieu
tenant Tardy: The measure of the
battle efficiency of any vessel Is her
ability to deliver the greatest number
OF hits in the shortest possible time
after the enemy is sighted and with
the least eXpedture of coal
In this direction let us see what has
been done. The Texas, writes Com
mander Tardy. was one of the Amer
lean ships in the battle Of Santiago.
Less than three per cent of all the
shells fired in this battle by the Ameri-
can fleet nit the enemy. There is no
record that a single twelve inch or
thirteen inch shell took effect. The
ranges were less than 5000 yards. Re
Gently the New Hampshire used the
old Texas as a target She fired a;
ranges of from 10000 to 1880 yards
and landed whole salyoes on the Tex
as whenever she wished.
Recently the Michigan. an all big
gun ship, made 30 twelve inch hits
AZ ranges of 10000 Yards while steam
in2 at fifteen knots, the target being
only 90 feet long by 80 feet high. She
fired IS twelve inch shells. Her per
centage OF hits therefore was about As. /,
The rate Of firing was about two shots
per minute per gun. This in a mod
erately rough sea, while the sea was
smooth at the battle OF Santiago
These and other similar results
recently induced the secretary OF the
navy to say in an address delivered
before the New York Economic club: /
Scientific management eXi erts who /
saw the recent battle practice tell me .
that the battleship is the finest eX'
hibition OF scientific management they
have ever seen"
Lieutenant Tardy tells how this ef-
ficiency was developed.
Every officer in charge OF any part .
Of a ships battery, he writes. was
required to improyise the equipment
and develop the best method of train