Bisbee daily review., 1914-11-22
WASP OF THE SEA IS PLANNED TO COMBAT
 SUBMARINE PERIL
New Destroyers Will Have Wider Radius of Operations Than Their Predecessors and Can Destroy Their Own Kind.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 21.-out of dearly bought lessons of naval war, fare in the North Sea, a new engine of destruction is coming-the sub marine destroyer. Larger more pow erful, and with a greater radius of operations than any of its predeces- sors, this new wasp of the sea will not only be equipped to sting it's giant adversaries but 10 destroy it's own kind on the surface of the sea.
 British and French navy yards. and private ship yards as we'll are work ing night and day to have the new 1 submarine destroyers in service with in the next few months This inform nation coming to United States nav al officers. commands greater inter | est because the United States Navy. i too, is to have some of these newest ships of war. Its experts have been at work upon plans for them for months l The theory on which the new sea 1 fighters are being built is that they l shall be armed for battle either on the surface or below They will be of much greater tonnage than exist ing submarines. Tentative plans have
 been made for boats of 1000 tons, bu- merged, which would permit fuel ca racity Co cross oceans with battle
 
 for crew quarters. The close attend .ance of parent ship upon sub marine fleets would then be unnec-
 essary.
 The underwater armament will
 consist of torpedo tubes as in pres
 ent submarines, but more tubes and
 a greater supply of the proiectiles em- ployed with such terrible effect in the European War For surface fight . ing against hostile submarines they e will carry small guns, mounted in ' water tight compartments and placed . on elevators to lift them to the upper |, deck of the ship as she rides a foot or. . two out of the water. A quick fire six - pouuder probably will De the largest
 weapon that can be employed for r. that purpose because greater weight.
 set high above the vessels center of - gravity. would tend to render her top e heavy.
 - Beneath the surface the new de- l- stroyers would operate as ordinary
 20Oton vessels of their type except '- that they would have greater cruising '- range On the surface they would O scout for hostile submarines, spottine ll an enemys periscope, then swinging g up the six pounder to open fire, rely n ing on greater speed to keep in range s and upon the fact that six poundel
 proicctiles would easily pierce the n thin skin of the hostile craft. One De such wound would cripple an enemy n even if no vital part of his mechan y ism were struck The puncture would e sink him if he attempted to submerg' 'r and so he would be compelled to lie 'r on the surface at.the mercy of tho ldestroyer's guns.
 h. The equipment of the new British l nehters is understood to be similar tI n that contemplated for American crall " Diesel crude oil engines driving th
 propellers for surface cruising the 'I oDeratine dynamos which keep stor H age batteries constantly at standard '7 strapeth ior under word when tho 'e shin is driven by electricity The 'l German engine. now to be employed a against its inventors, offers the h'Bn
 est fuel economy in power generation
 vet achieved and on its small rue " consumption depends the greatly m " creased cruising radius of the ne' ad ships .r ~ American naval engineers are con
 siderine the application of Diesel CT " zines to warships in another conne' ,,- ton also. The result may be ln -r coo,nlete revolution of the poWe
 aopipnent of the coming super-drea' '0 nougbts Experiments have been maa l9 s,ccossfully with the new collier Ju 20 piter in getting greater efficiency ou
 of steam turbines, by using them U drive dvnamos and using electriclr thus generated 10 propel the Su,i The theory is that by operating Il
 prbines at higher speed, than is pos
 sible in applying their power ulIeCV!
 to inc propeners added power IS gen
 crsted per unit of weight which mor'
 iban offsets losses through chanslhl
 cream mower into electrical energy
 When the plans for the great oa'tl'
 sbins provided In this years estimat'
 lwere sent out to bidders, the NeV
 York navy yard submitted proposal
 for one ship to be driven by electric
 Inv and the navy general board ha
 the project under consideratin' lt n
 moi necessary for decision to o'
 reached for a year, it is said as !
 will take that time to construct lh'
 bulls up to the point where inslalla 4 tion of engines will be decided on. In the mean time the board nas pc
 fore it new proposal which con
 templates the substitution of Diese
 engines for steam turbines to drv' h the electric generators. That It II 1t said. would virtually double the cruis n ai,e of the shin per gallon O