The Hawaiian gazette., 1914-07-14
NEVADA NOW
. READY FOR .
LAUNCHING
Uncle Sans --latest superdread-
nought One Of the Two Fight
ing Ships Surprising Anything
EOw,in United States Navy, Is
Scheduled to Glide Into Sea
Today.

QUINCY, Massachusetts, July liz
| (By Associated Press) The super
droadnought Nevada, to be launched
here today, aud her sister ship the
Oklahoma, which was hoated at Phila!
ldelPhia last March, surpass in tonnage,
displacement and armament any United
states warship now aAoat. She is, how,
ever less formidable than the Pennsyl.
Nania, whose keel was laid last splidg,
and the unnamed sea fighter, No. 80,
both Of which will have displacement
OF 81 ,40e tons.
The Nevada 5 displacement Is 81 800
tons, or 500 tons greater than the Texas
and New York, the latest sea CLANS TO
nc commissioned by the United states.
Her length is 5s3 feet, with a breadth
Of 30 teet 2lh inches on load water
line.
Ten fourteen-inch gums, capable OF
firing 1400-ponnd shells, will constitute
her principal armament. Two three, gun
turrets viii he among her dcfenses.
One OF these largest OF turrets will be
on the toreeastlo deck, along with a
trrret from which two bag guns will
be pointed. Another two,gnn turrei
viii sweep the quarter deck, and astern
OF this will be the other three-gnn tur
ret. The turrets arc arranged to make
complete revolutions. so that the en-,
tire battery Of the big guns can be
concentrated on an enemy approaching
from either side, forward or aft.
Besides her big fourteen-inch GU :
the Nevada will have distributed about
her decks twenty-one fve-inch gun.
land minor armament, such as one
i pounders, three-pounders, three-inel
ltield pieces and machine guns.
The Nevada Is arm0r renders hel
among the strongest battleships in tn,
i navy. Her belt is thirteen and one-hali
inches thick and will extend four hun
bred feet along either side Of the hull
i These plates will extend eight and one
half feet below the water line and nin'
feet above the waters surface Ther'
arc two protective decks as safe
guard against plunging FIRE, one threl
4 inches and the other one and onehal
Il inches.
! While the Neyada,will represents tn
last word in Americas sea power, th,
new British battleBhip Queen Elizabetl
will carry a more formidable armamen
Of no fless than eight ffteen.inch guns
This sea fighter probably will be com
missioned the first Of next year.
Tho Nevada is contemporary o.
the British wnrship Iron Duke. Tn
Iron Dukes displacement is $500
tons and She carries ten 10 inch guns
The Nevada's speed is estimated a
twenty and one-half knots, or abou
the same as the Iron Dukes. ALTHOUGH
the Nevada IS armor is thicker thar
that Of her British contemporary, it !
not spread over SO great an area o
side. The British warrior has second
airy battery Of sixteen six-inch guns
while tho Hevada's will consist o
i twenty-one fve-ineh guns. These ques
tions of distribution Of armor and Oh
relative importance Of the number an
caliber of guns are two problems o.
which the naval experts Of the worl
are not in complete accord.
The Nevada will burn oil only, an
her engines will have an indicate
horsepower OF 2i,sO0 The fuel oil wi
be carried In the double bottom of Oh
ship, thus effecting an economy OF spae
over the old arrangement, which Gale
for extensive coal bunkcrs. Her cor
tractors promise to have the new bat
tleship completed by January 20 mex