Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-02-03

Kaiser Wilhelm II. Kaiser Karl Der
Gorrse, Kaiser Wilhelm De Gross,
Kaiser Barbarossa. Wittelsgach. Zah-
ringen. Wetten, Mecklenberg ana
! Schwaben, each of which has ton
mage of 1924, was built at the same
time as the omitted American battle
ships and has a main armament OF
four 9 4-1o inch guns while the ore
gon. Massachusetts and Indiana have
a main armament of four 13-inch guns
and tonnage of 10,2Ss tons each.
"A high English authority was pre-
sented to the secretary of the navy
/ showing the inferiority of these 10
/ German battleships with their 4-10-
/ inch guns to battleships armed with
! 12-ineh or 13-inch guns.
.'It was further developed that ac-
cortling to this comparison in the navy
year book, the tonnage of the Ger
man battleships was from 1894, which
was the smallest. to 1891, which was
the largest of 27 German battleships;
and that of 81 American battleships
the smallest was 1886 and the larg-
est was $1,000 tons. The secretary
admitted that so far as the tonnage of
the battleships was concerned the
American navy was greater than that
of the Germans, as we'll as an excess of
seven battleships in favor of the Amer
can navy ~N
In regard to the armament of the
German 90 battleships ii was developed
that 10 of them were supplied each
with four guns 40 ealibre guns and
the other 10 each with four guns II
inches in calibre while all the "a
American battleships are each arIn~
with four 12-inch or 13ineh guns.
showing the great superiority of the
American battleships in point of the
power of guns.
Comparing the Dreadnoughts of the
German with those of the American
navy. it appears, according to the
year book, that the German navy has
13 and the American has only seven.
This result is brought about by includ-
ing in the list of German Dread
noughts four ships which are armed
with 11-inch guns while all the Dread
noughts in the American navy are
armed with 12- or 14-inch guns. The
result was further brought about in
the year book by taking out of the
the South Carolina, each of which
has a tonnage of 5000 and each of
which is armed with eight 12-inch
guns IF the Michigan and the South
Carolina had been put in the list
where they belong and where they
were placed in the 1912 navy year book,
and previous to that time, and the four
German ships, which have only H.
inch guns were taken y out of the
Dreadnought type and put into the
battleship class where they belong,
then the Dreadnoughts in both OF the
navies would be the same in number
nine.
In regard to the tonnage of the
Dreadnoughts of the two navies, it
was developed that the lowest tom
mage in any German Dreadnought was
q. .435 tons and the largest 24.306, while
in the American navy the lowest tom
mage is $4,000 and the highest is a.
600.
Comparing the Dreadnoughts of the
German navy with those of the Amer
lean navy in point of guns, it was de-
veleped that four of the German
Dreadnoughts each has an armament
of 1o 12-inch guns and the other sfive
each an armament of 10 12-ineh guns.
while in the American navy it appear
ed that two had an armament each
of eight Pinch guns; four, 10 12-inch
guns, two of Il. 12-inch guns and two
of 10 14-inch guns, showing the great
superiority Of the American Dread
noughts in the calibre and power or
their guns.
Comparing the two navies as to the
reference of Dreadnoughts now build
ing it appeared that the smallest
Draadnoughts now being built in the
German navy is 26575 tons, and the
smallest building in the American navy
is $1,000 tons; that the largest Dread
nought building in the German navy
have tonnage of $4,000 and the largest
building in the American navy have
tonnage of 81, 400 or an excess OF 3400
tons over the largest German ship now
building. Comparing the Dreadnoughts
now building further with reference to
the armament it appeared that the
four smallest German Dreadnoughts
have 14-inch guns, three of them being
supplied with 10 each and two of them
with 12 each.
TT was further developed in COM
pairing the American navy with the
japanese navy that the American navy
has 80 battleships and the Japanese
only 19, including all in both navies
that are built and building"