The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-09-22


Bloom failed IN the preliminary eN.
animation. and IL was then Colonel
Garrard Endorsed his papers. calling
attention to the fact that he was the
son OF the post tailor az Fort Myer,
and stating he would not desire him
in his command as an officer and a
social and personal associate.
In admonishing Colonel Garrard,
the President waived the examination
which Bloom failed to pass, and au-
thorized him to take another test
Jubilee Of the lronolad.
This year is the jubilee of the entry
into service of the first of all sea
going armored ships built for the Brit
ish navy. This was the armored
cruiser Warrior, which, laid down at
the Blackwell yard of the Thames Iron
Works in 1859, was launched on De
cember %, 1860, and commissioned by
Captain the Hon. Arthur Cochrane on
August /, 1861, for a series Of expert
mental cruises.
The Warrior was built as a reply"
to the armored frigate Gloire, which
had been built for the French fleet.
The British vessel was considerably
larger than her French opposite num-
Der" Her length was $50 feet, beam
"a feet inches, and displacement 81
21O tons. Her engines of 500 horse
power, which gave her a speed Of 14.4
knots on trial, were constructed by
the famous firm of John Penn at
Greenwich, now merged in the Thames
Iron Works,
The great feature of the ship was, of
course, her armor belt, This was com
posed of rolled iron plates Az inches
thick and covered the waterline for
about three-fifths of the vessels
length, the ends of the ship being left
entirely unprotected. The Warrior
was a very graceful ship, with her
overhanging bow, and her three masts,
full spread of canvas, vast
ly different from the grim-looking bus
iness-lke ships of today
BY a coincidence, the battleship Her
cules, which was commissioned in |
July for service as flagship of the
vice admiral commanding the second
division of the home fleet, had her.
crew completed to full numbers on
August l and proceeded to join the
rest of the fleet at Portland. There
is, of course, no means of making any |
reasonable comparison between the |
fighting values of the two ships, since
the old Warrior would be about as eff
fective against the Hercules as a fish
ing smack, the reason being that by
keeping out of the range of the War
'ior's muzzle-loading guns-which her
speed would enable her to do
the modern ship could sink the War J
rior in a couple of minutes without
getting so much as a scratch herself.
Nevertheless, some idea of the prog
'ess made in the last half century may
De obtained from the following de-
ails:
Warrior, 1861-Length, $50 feet;
1eam, 54,6 feet; tonnage, 921O; horse
)ower, 500; speed, 14.4 knots; main
lrmor, 41a-inch iron; armor at ends,
Ill; heaviest guns, tons; heaviest
she'll, 259; muzzle energy of ditto,
'.64 feet-tons.
Hercules, 1911-Length, $40 feet;
'eam, IS feet; tonnage, 10000; horse
,ower $4,000 turbines; speed, q
Knots; main armor, 12-inch steel; ar
nor at ends, 6-inch; heaviest guns, Go
ons; heaviest shell, $50 pounds; muz-
lie energy of ditto, 43,4OO feet-tons.
The hulk of the old Warrior is still
II existence. 1t is attached to the
Iernon, torpedo schoolship at Ports
mouth, and is known as H. M. S. Yer
ION III.