The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1912-06-10

1lSg Guns
look as if they might be carried in
shawl straps
1t requires about eighteen months
to construct one OF the fourteen-incn
guns, and already six have been com
pleted and taken out to the naval
proving ground at Indian Head, where
they are tested. The rest OF the twen-
" guns are in various stages Of max
ing, but all are expected to be ready
when the New York and Texas are
launched next year,
Although the s0arteen-inch beauties
are the creates attraction to visitors
just now, the other naval armament in
the shops is of tremendous interest
Twalyeinch giants weighing titty-six
tons stick out from the iathes. They
cost even more than the fourteeninch
guns to make, $4,000 being the
amount each gun costs without its
mount, which costs $4,000 additional
They have longer range than the
larger sized guns, but their life is
shorter, lining being necessary after
200 rounds have been fired. 1t costs
Sf24 each time one OF these is fired
With war charge and projectile.
Horsepower Figured.
In the shell shops workmen may be
seen transforming blocks OF brass in
TO tubes, an interesting process. while
in a vast tank IA another building
models Of war vessels are being test
ed This workshop is next to the gun
factory in Interest. Wooden models,
as large as a canoe or rowboat. OF ev-
cry vessel ordered for the navy are
made by the shipbuilders. The pro-
portions are exactly the same as those
OF the projected ships OF war. Above
the long tank travels an appliance
rot unlike a crane. When the test is
made the model is weighted in pro.
portion to the weight OF the actual
boat in order to determine the dis
placement The model is connected
with the travelling overhead device,
which drives 1t through the water at
varying degrees OF speed. A machine
records the resistance and from this
is figured the horse power required
to drive the actual vessel at a given
rate Of speed.
The completion Of the Texas and
the New York next year and Of the
Nevada and Oklahoma in 1914 will
give the United States thirty-seven
hrst-class battIeships with tonnage
OF 610,196. When Germany finishes
the nine dreadnoughts that are to be
completed at the rate OF three a year
before the close OF 1914, It will have
thirty-six battleships with a tonnage
Oh 5S0,S70 Great Britain, which Is
huilding ten new dreadnoughts. two
to be finished this year four next year
and four in 19.4. win have total OF
seventy battieships, tonnage 1883.
000 In battleships the United states
viii rank second, but in armored
cruisers it Will have twelve, as against
Germanys fourteen and Great Brit
aims forty-four by the end of 1914.
The tonnage of the battleships and
armored cruisers built building and
provided for according to the latest
navy year book, Isl Great Britain.
1908, $50: United States, 76s,241; /
Germany, 7s16sS; France, 626. 726: I
Japan, 42Ls45; Russia, 2SIOl6. ltaly. I
2e9.707, and Austria-Hungary, 171.IgS |
n number and displacement OF all
war ships, built and building, of 600
or more tons and OF torpedo craft OF
more than fifty tons. Great Britain
has $50 vessels Of 2.324579 tonnage.
Germany. 26S vessels and 1857 .sss
tonnage. and the United States. ig7
vessels. tonnage S85.OGo.
AS to large guns, the United states
navy win have forty fouueenineh.
thirty-two thirteenAnch ana lag
twelveAnch guns. a total OF 22O: Ger.
many viii have l7e twelveinch and
eleven-inch guns. a total
Of 272, and Great Britain win have
800 twelge.inch and iS4 thirteen-lnch
guns. an aggregate OF asa