The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-03-16
Battleship No. 30, Greatest Of
Superdreadnoughts, VIII
Be Built Here.
NEW YORK NEARLY READY
Powerful Craft Soon to Have
"Shakedown''-The Texas
Near Completion.


most formidable Of this nations battle
ships. IL In the Brooklyn navy yard all
but ready TO make her nrst voyage. In
sixteen days she will be put In service.
In . fortnight more. after putting provi-
sions aboard, she will steam out for her
maiden trip.
As the New York goes out the pneu-
matte hammers of the navy yard will be
ringing In the construction OF newer
and bigger vessel Battleship 80. whose
keel will be laid to-day In the ways that
were used for the construction OF the New
York.
This battleship will carry two more
IL inch guns than the New York and will
b nfty-two feet longer. with a slightly
different form OF construction. Until
Secretary OF the Navy Daniels decides
on . name the battleship will BIO known
BY number.
Il was thought at the navy yard that
she may be called tho North Carolina,
which would necessitste the change Of
the name OF an armored cruiser. II We
get two other ships they will take up
the names of all the States. Only New
Msxico and Arizona now have no battle
shipe named for them. A sister ship
OF the -. the Pennsylvania, 10 being built
~ ~ Newport News company.
s'se" VIII Ne Heaviest Armed.
The new ship will be moro heavily
armed than any United States or Euro
pean battleship. Were It not for the
limitations OF the Panama Canal locks
the new ship would have a greater beam.
II II expected that the ship will make
more than ono knot over the twenty zone
knots the New York Is to make
They have built big ships before at
ths Brooklyn navy yard. although none
20 formidable as the New York, but the
significance in the completion OF the New
YSak lies In the fact that the ship has
BEEN finished in six months less time than
u took the Newport News Shipbuiiding
Company TO build the Texas. a sister ship
The Texas Is ready to leave the private
oompany's yards and IL expected In NJ
the Brooklyn navy yard a week from to-
day. II was said. Even then II will be
two months before the Texas will be
ready to start out for the ''shakedown,"
a. the first trip Of a battleship Is called.
This 10 because Of minor changes that are
% be made. but these changes ought not
70 be chalked up against the Texas, 1t
was said yesterday. because they were
not In the contract.
The New York Costs Ql3,OOO,OOO.
past the battleship New York. which tow
cred above the others In the navy yard.
and inspected the great hulk that 1t has
eAksn three years and millions of dollars
70 float The bid OF the navy yard was
100000 and this did not Include armor
and other equipment, which brings the
total valuation to about $4,000. 600
enough to build the Woolworth Building.
But then 1t is the latest thing in super
dreadnoughts. until TIE new unnamed
battleship SO and the sister ship, the Penn.
sylvania. are finished, and would stand, to
vss the familiar illustration. higher than
the Washington Monument II placed on
END. Her ten IL inch guns put the
ship in a class by herself. Their range is
moro than twelve miles and at five to
ax miles the shots will penetrate tenn
pered armor plate sixteen inches thick
These big rifles cost $4,000 each for the
gun Itself and $4,000 for the mount
Naval Constructor Robert Sucker. who
has built the New York. has made every
effort to get his ship out In record time
Tho hrst step was Il plan to launch the
New York with her engines In her hull q
feat not before attempted The New
York was launched with a new method
Of release from the ways on October 80
1919. The keel had been laid September
IL, 1911. Capt Thomas e. Rodgers will
% In command.