The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1913-04-24
POWERFUL MUzzE
ENERGIES or NAVY
WILL Be PRRADED
Greatest Flotilla of Fighting
Graft That Ever Flew Stars
and Stripes to Set Sail
In January.

- Washington, April 22.--When the
ranean in January 1t will have nearly
twice the muzzle energy Of h famous
battleship fleet sent around the world
In 1907 by former President Roosevelt.
and about half again as great tonnage.
The schedule of the ports OF call
have not been made out as yet in the
navy department and Il merely has
been announced that the Dig fleet
would tour the Mediterranean in di-
visions. 1t was the original plan in
connection with the opening of the
Panama canal to have the feet passed
through from the Atlantic to the Pa
ciic about January !, the tentative
date of the opening.
This practically is d~isarranged, but
it was pointed out today that from
the Mediterranean it is comparatively
a short voyage through the SueZ canal
and into the Pacific and h feet could
return that way, making the passage
through the canal from the Pacific TO
the Atlantic.
B~attieship Division.
The main ships of the line~to go on
the cruise will be the battleships Wy3"
ming, Florida, Virginia. Arkansas, Del
aware, New York, Utah, Vermont,
South Carolina, Georgia, Nebraska,
New Jersey, Rhode Island, Minnesota,
Connecticut, Kansas and Idaho.
Comparing these ships with the bat
tie feet which Went around the world,
they aggregate a tonnage of 364, 800, as
against 223, 500. Navy officials point out
that a more striking example of the
advance in the navy's effective fight
ing powers Is shown by a comparison
Of the muZZle energy Of the main bat
terry.
Fleets MuzzIe Energy.
In round figures the muzzle energy
of the battle feet of 1907 summed up
$780, 900 feet pounds. The main bat
teries Of the fleet which will make the
Mediterranean trip will total $3.50, 900
feet pounds-almost twice as much.
The battleships will be accompanied by
all the destroyers that can be spared
and an accompaniment of repair and
supply ships. This official announce
ment by Secretary Daniels made 1t ap-
parent that the ships will go fully equip
ped. The navy department official an
nouncement declared the feet will be
too large to be accommodated at any
one time in many harbors to be visited
and that at Gibraltar 1t will be divided
and make a tour Of the Mediterranean
In divisions.
Object Of Cruise.
Official announcement of the fleets
movement as mad late last night at
the navy department declares the OBJ
ject Is to send the feet on a pleasant
cruise to stimulate enlistment and edu-
cate officers n men. Accompanying
The annOIlnNanNnnf Nyno n rNp, 49, kfXyn
statement Of the fighting strength of
the feet as against the battle fleet of
1907, and also a short review of the
cruise of the white squadron" the
first Of the new navy to cruise in for
eign waters, and the cruise of the bat
fleet Of 1907.
The white squadron" had four ves-
sells. Their total tonnage was 16, 22O,
just that Of h Connecticut, Evans
flagship in the famous battleshin
cruise. The total muzzle energy Of the
squadron's main batteries was 100, 900
foot tons, that Of the Connecticut Is
$4,000. A salvo Of the squadron fired
1900 pounds of projectiles, that OF the
Connecticut $500 pounds.
The New York, launched October 2
1912, with $1,000 tons displacement. fir
ing $4,000 pounds and TOO, 900 foot tons
In a salyo, is nearly twice the size
ana nres three times the weight of
metal, with six times the e Of
he whole of the famous white SQUAD
don" in 1890.
The battleship feet OF 1907 was COM
posed OF 16 battleships. Ave auxiliaries
and h second torpedo f1otilIa. The
Meet called at Trinidad, Rio De Janefro,
Punta Arenas. Vallao, Magdalena bay
and arrived at San Francisco Nav 16.
1908. a total distance Of $4,000 miles,
Ihence the fleet visited Puget Sound,
San Francisco, and sailed on July 7,
via Honolulu, New Zealand, Australia
and Manila, for Yokohama, arriving
there October IS, 1908. after a journey
OF $4,000 miles n spending a week
or courteous exchange Of compliments.
Inc Meet assembled at Manila, de-
parted thence December /. 1905 Via
Chiffon, Suez and Gibraltar and an
chored In Hampton Roads, February
~, 1908. l2,455 miles sail from Manila
completing what Is probably the
of naVies. S