The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-03-24
GREATEST NAVY
MONSTERS Yet
Battloshlp SO VIII OutClass the
S12,OOO,OOO New York.
LATTER IN SERVICE SOON

Super DresdnoUsht IL Placed on End
Would Tower Higher Than the WASH
inston 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
teship. 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
newer and bigger vessel. battleship 80,
whose keel has been laid in the ways
that We're used for the construction Of
the New York.
This battleship win carry two more
fourteen inch guns than the New York
and will be fifty-two feet longer. with
a slightly different form of construc-
ton. Until Secretary Of the Navy Dan.
1elS decides on name the battleship
will be known by number.
IT 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. sister
ship of the 80. the Pennsylvania. is
being built by the Newport News com.
paBy.
"2s'' Will Be Heaviest Armed.
The new ship will be more heavily
armed than any United States or Eu-
ropean battleship. Were 1t not for the
limitations of the Panama canal locks
the new ship would have greater
beam. 1t 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
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
it took the Newport News Shipbuilding
company 10 build the Texas, 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 battleship is called.
This is because of minor changes that
are to be made
Mammoth Ship Cost $12,oo0,o00.
The battleship New York has taken
three years TO build and millions Of
dollars to float The bid Of the navy
yard wae $7.OOO.000, and this did not
include armor and other equipment,
which brings the total valuation to
about S1200O.Oo0.
1t is the latest thing in snper-Dread-
nOughts until the new unnamed bat
tleship 80 and her sister ship. the
Pennsylvania, are finished and would
stand, to use the familiar Illustration.
higher than the Washington mouu-
ment If placed on end. Her ten four
teen-incb guns put the ship in class
by herself. Their range is more than
aAiA at htG W ola LlliCS
the shots will penetrate tempered ar
NOR plate sixteen inches thick. These
big rifles cost $G2 ZOO each for the gun
itself and $4,000 for the mount.
Naval Constructor Robert Stocker,
who has built the New York, has made
every effort to get his ship ont in rec
ord time. The first step was plan to
launch the New York with her engines
In her bull, feat not before attempt
ed. rhe New York was launched with
2ew method of release from the
ways on Oct 80. 1912 The keel had
been laid Sept II, 1911. Captain
Thomas c, Rodgers will be in com
mand.
AMERICAN CHILD WISER.