The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-03-21
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S12,OOO,OOO New York.
LATTER IN SERVICE SOON
Superb readnousht if Placed on End
Would Tower Higher Than the Wash
ington Monument - All but Two
States Have Warships Named After
Them--The Texas Almost Ready.

The great sea warrior New York,
the most formidable United States bat
tleship, is In the Brooklyn navy yard
all but ready to make her first voyage.
AS the New York goes out the pneu-
matte hammers of the navy yard will
be ringing in the construction Of a
newer and bigger vessel, battleship 80,
whose keel has beer laid in the ways
that were used for the construction OF
the New York.
This battleslip will carry two o
fourteen inch guns than the New York
and will be ifty-two feet longer, with
a slightly different form Of construc-
ton. Until Secretary of the Navy Dan
iels decides on n name the battleship
will be known by number.
1t was thought at the navy yard that
she may be called the North Carolina,
which would necessitate the change of
the name Of an armored cruiser. Only
New Mexico and Arizona now have no
battleships named for them. A sister
being built by the Newport News com
pany.
1897 Will Be Heaviest Armed.
The new ship will be more heavily
ropean battleship. Were II not for the
limitations of the Panama canal locks
the new ship would have a greater
beam. Ii Is expected that the ship will
make more than one knot over the
twenty-one knots the New York is to
make.
They have built big ships before at
the Brooklyn navy yard, although nom
so formidable as the New York, but
the significance In the completion OF
the New York, says the New York Sun.
lies In the fact that the ship has been
finished In six months less time than
1t took the Newport News S~hipbuilding
company to build the Texas, a sister
ship.
The Texas Is due at the Brooklyn
navy yard. Even then 1t will be two
months before the Texas will be ready
TO start out for the 'shakedown," as
the first trip OF a battleship is called
This is because of minor changes that
are TO be made.
Mammoth Ship Cost $4,000, 900.
The battleship New York has taken
three years TO build and millions OF
dollars to float. The bid OF the navy
yard was $7,000,000, and this did not
include armor and other equipment
which brings the total valuation to
about $l2.o00,O00.
1t is the latest thing In super Dread
noughts until the new unnamed bat
tleship 30 and her sister ship, the
Pennsylvania. are finished and would
stand, to use the familiar Illustration
higher than the Washington monu
ment IL placed on end. Her ten four
teen-inch guns put the ship In a class
by herself. Their range is more thar
twelve miles, and at five to six miles
the shots will penetrate tempered ar
NOR plate sixteen inches thick. These
big rifles cos $62,aoo each for the CUR
itself and $4,000 for the mount.
Naval Constructor Robert Stocker
who has built the New York, has mad,
every effort to get his ship out I'm rec
ord time. The first step was a plan L
launch the New York with her engines
In her hull, a feat not before attempt
ed. The New York was launched with
a new method of release from tn,
ways on Oct. 80. 1912 The keel hat
been laid Sept IL, 1911. Captain
Thomas G. Rodgers will be in com
mand.