Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-22
Senate Votes for Building War
ship Surprising All Others
Extant.
LENGTH TO BE 1000 FEET;
ITS CAPACITY 10000 TONS
Guns Will Be at Least 49,
Inch CaIiber, and Steel Ar
NOR Very Thick.

WASHINGTON, July 22.-Tillman's
Terror, the most stupendous battleship
the world will ever see" was provided
for, so far as a resolution passed by the
senate is concerned, without a negative
vote
The biggest battleship in the world
today is the Rivadavia, built in the
United States for the great republic
OF Argentina. She is 585 feet long, can
just get through the Panama canal is
of $4,000 tons displacement and carries
twelve twelve-inch guns.
In the first place, the Terror will
beat all these specifications of the RI
vadavia and her sister ship the More
no, both Of which are being built in this
country, AS Great Britain and Japan
and Germany are building fourteen
inch guns to equal the American four
teen-inch guns, the Terror must have
at least a seventeen inch gun, because
the United States has a sixteen inch
coast artillery gun which is to be imi-
tatedeby all Of the foreign nations.
The citadel armor of the two latest
battleships for the United States navy
will be from seventeen to eighteen
inches thick, and that, too, is to be
considered in the next British construc-
ton.
Dimensions and Equipment.
The initial United States Terror must
then be something like this:
Sixty thousand tons displacement.
Length, 1000 feet.
Beam, 100 feet
Ten. eighteen-inch guns, which will
carry 81 miles.
Twenty to twenty-five inches of steel
armor for the upper works and turrets.
A beam that will necessitate an en-
largement of the Panama canal.
Speed, about 80 knots.
There is no question that If the Ter
Britain Japan and Germany will i'm
mediately find out how big she is to be
and will proceed to build Terror No. 2
or Terror to the second power. Then
there must be an American Superior
ror" and so on ad infinitum
There Is no doubt that the resolution
will cause the nations generally to in
vestigate what is the greatest possible
battleship that can be built. Admiral
Togo told the American senate some
time ago that he did not know what the
limit of construction would be, but if
battleships were to be built with refer
ence to the Panama canal the limit
nearly had been reached.
One little difficulty about the TILL
man battleship is that she can only be
attacking or defending at one place at
a time.
Destructive in 31-Mile Sweep.
She could rest at any given spot in
the ocean and sweep everything within
a radius Of 81 miles out of existence.
She could cover everything to an ex-
tent of nearly 5000 square miles. But
while the Terror was Smelling a me-
tropolis of the old world the fleets of
the world would be on this side Of the
water doing business Of their own and
landing troops. Things would be diff
ferent, Of course. If the United States
had a whole fleet Of Terrors, and this
the United States would undoubtedly
have the moment Great Britain or any
other foreign country began the build
ing of Terror to the second power
The naval experts here do not agree
as to the dimensions Of the biggest bat
tleship "the world will ever see" for
some time Rear Admiral N. r. Twin
ing, chief of the bureau Of ordnance,
with whom the specifications were
discussed, said he thought an eighteen
inch gun might be the limit. and other
experts say twenty inches.
The fact is. however that at the
arsenal at Spezzia there is already an
Inch gun.