The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-08-13
A WORN OUT FLEET

%. The battleship Iowa, Fighting
Bob" Evans last command as cap
/ tain.
6. The battleship Texas, already
gone, Jack Philips old ship.
| Z. The battleship Massachusetts,
another famous Santiago memory.
4 s. The battleship Indiana, sister
ship of the Oregon and Massachusetts,
and like them, one OF Santiago's ia
nous contenders.
i 9. The battleship Kearsarge, first OF
superimposed turret ships.
| 10, The battleship Kentucky, sister
ship of the Kearsarge.
4 II. The battleship Illinois. one OF
the Observation-Disclosures ships.
IL. The battleship Alabama, also
of the fleet that went around the
world under Evans and Thomas and
Sperry.
49, The battleship Wisconsin, with
the Alabama and Illinois. the only
battleships of the navy whose twin
tunnels are arranged in parallel fash
ion, one to the port and the other to
the starboard.
/ IA. The battleship Maine. built in
memory of the martyr ship of 1898,
and yet a ship that is already obso-
lete and has been missing from the
Atlantic fleet for several years.
Is. The battleship Missouri, an
other acknowledgement voyager.
16. The battleship Ohio, still in
the Atlantic feet, but slated to leave
in the near future never to return.
II. The commerce destroyer Co
lumbia, so long missing in the news
lof the navy that generation has
grown up that knows her not, and she
was of the Flying Squadron of 1898.
il IS. The commerce destroyer Min
neapolis, a speed record breaking
cruiser of the late zoos, sister OF
the Columbia. and, like her, OF the
Flying Squadron of 1898.
II 10. The monitor Amphitrite.
J, 20. The monitor Miantonomah.
!. 81. The monitor Monadnock.
Il %. The monitor Cheyenne, form
: erly the Wyoming.
%. The monitor Ozark, formerly
) the Arkansas.
: "a. The monitor Tonopah, former
4 lly the Nevada.
Il rs. The monitor Tallahassee, for
E merly the Florida.
+ 26. The monitor Puritan.
ell 81 The monitor Terror
8. The monitor Monterey.
e 20. The protected cruiser st. Louis
s 30. The protected cruiser Charles
f ton.
81. The protected cruiser Mil
waukee.
80. The protected cruiser Newark
ii 3d. The protected cruiser Chicago
q "a. The protected cruiser Raleigh
n Coghlan's ship at Manila.
ri &c. Twenty-eight torpedo boats
wi Twenty years ago this feet of sixty
r three ships would have been mate
n for any naval organization then afioat
If Great Britain. Today all the vessel
r in it could not last half an hour i
e la battle with the five dreadnought
at that constitute the great first divisio
70 of the United States Atlantic fleet.
sr And this mighty fleet Of "navs
a has-beens'' cost the United State
ii government more than s129,000,00
Id and the oldest among them, not il
n Guiding the old monitors, Is not ye
b. twenty-five years old. The battleshir
ne in 1t to build and equip cost tn
ss government s64,435 225 and the cruz
of ers, monitors and torpedo craft rails
the total to the s129,000.000.
Id What will become of these ship!
ed Some are now in reserve and the
he they will stay until their end is d
err cided upon. Will that end be Il
cd target range or the auction blot
nd and the Junk pile, or will they be pc
I'm mitted to rust away in navy var
lip nominally as units in reserve flee
en- but in reality as useless reminders
he a navy that in its day was great b
err which, owing to marvellous progre
nd In naval construction has reach
ICu Dut SulCiy thot o,dlO VI Ops
I'M leteness from which there can be
he come back"
rk, The Oregon and the Olympia W
The probably be retained for generatio
Of to come as glorious reminders
las Americans of future years OF t
navy that won Immortality in the br
Ills conflict that wiped Spain off the m
ips of the western world and which add
ose Ito American territory an island g
the pire in the far east and won for Il
the country for the first time a full, fr
ana recognition by all the nations of t
en- world of the right to be number
lalf among those powers whose missi
Ugh and influence is world wide"
ks IN the lineup Of the has bee
hty feet 1t will be noted that there Is
Adj cluded the entire fourth division
tha great fleet that circumn avfyat