The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-07-18
FACTS ABOUT THE
o. s. s. ARIZONA:

FACTS ABOUT THE
o. s. 8. ARIZONA:
1t is the biggest dreadnaught
adoat.
1t cost $14.ooo.ooo.
When in service 1t will carry
1850 officers and sailors.
It is armed with twelve 14-inch
guns and twenty-five 5-inch guns.
It has four torpedo tubes. Besides
being proof against torpedoes 1t is
SO equipped as to be able to destroy
submarines.
It burns oil and can go $4,000
miles on its own fuel at a rate of
81 knots an hour.
1t is $50 feet long. II it were
placed on end 1t, would tower above
the Washington monument and the
Pyramid of Cheops in Egypt.
With it's sister ship. the Pennsyl-
vania, it is the most formidable de-
Tense any government possesses.
Like a mighty giant towering
above his Lilliputian foes. the U. s.
S. Arizona. the greatest dreadnaught
now afloat, is staggering over the
seas as warning to all the nations
of the world that the United States
is not powerless to defend herself
against invasion. but can meet her
enemies with the most powerful
agents of destruction this era has
ever known.
The Arizona with her sister-ship,
the Pennsylvania, the two mightiest
warships now afloat, are designed to
meet any of the war vessels of 9th
er nations and overpower them, de-
signed to resist the attacks OF sub
marines and crush the black-bodled
under-sea vessels and send them to
the bottom. The two great ships
are almost irresistible and the Unit
ed States, by secret process known
only to the naval department, has
constructed them so that they are
practically bullet proof, and unstDk-
able.
The Arizona carries twelve Ia
finch guns. the largest armament
considered practical aboard battle
ship. When her mighty guns belch
forth their broadsides it will cost
the United States $4,000 for each
what it will cost the enemy she
meets will only be known when the
Arizona goes into her first engage
ment.
BUILT To F1GhI,
NOT RUN.
The present naval engagements
between European nations are mere
hide-and-seek battles compared with
those that will occur when such
ships as the Arizona and the Phtla-
delphia get into action. Vessels.
auch as they are. are built to fight
and not to run. Indeed, 1t seems a
principal of the United States to
enter in open naval engagements
rather than to shoot and run. In The
Revolutionary War of 1872, Civil
War and in the Spanish-American
War the United States naval forces
waited until the opportune moment
and then went to It hammer and
tongs, history shows.
what will occur therefor when the
Arizona and her sister-ship go forth
TO meet their enemies in battle ar
ray can only be surmtsed, military
experts say. Submarines, 1t Is con-
ceded, will have but little terror for
such leviathans. While one torpe-
do might do great damage 1t would
not sink either Of these great yes
sells and before the under-sea craft
could reach safety at the bottom OF
the ocean a shell from one OF the
great 14-inch guns, the gun sighted
by a United States navy gunner
their class being admitted the best
marksmen in the world, would de-
stroy the adversary.
Other submarines hardly would
dare to attack such formidable
warship. In fact, military experts
say, submarines dare attack battle
ships only when the crews OF the
latter are unwary or their gunners
are bad marksmen. With United
states navy gunners' mates skilled
at sending shells through the bulls
: eve more than a mile away in tar
get practice. 1t would be simple for
such a trained gunner to send q
shell through the periscope of sub
marine as soon as the little vessel
were sighted. A submarine with its
nariscope destroyed is as helpless
fbr battle as ship without rud-
der. The break not only allows wa
ter to pour in but compeis the vessel
to come TO surface and surrender for
there Is no hope Of getting to port,
according to those versed In sea
warfare
with the submarine thus eliminat-
ed. such vessels as the Arizona and
Pennsylvania would have no fear OF