Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-16
WORLDS GREATEST
WARSHIP LAUNCHED

| I0ntinuen from EHBe Oub
I State Governor Stuart and other officials
Of the Old Dominion State, and plain
everyday residents Of Newport News, all
doing honor to the great fighting machine
built to defend the Stars and Stripes
which were flying from every available
pole and structure in the yards.
SEEKS TO CONVERT SEA RAIDER,
Among the guests Of honor at the
launching was Commander Thierichsens,
of the Prinz Etel Friedrich. Shortly
after he arrived an effort was made by
an elderly, white-haired woman with n
,lacid face to convert him to the doc
trine Of peace. She introduced herself
as Mrs. NJ. s. Thomas, of Beacon, N. V,
a member of the Society of Friends and
J as she retained the big, Drowned hand
| which the sea raider offered her, she
asked:
Captain, do you not think the time has
! come for the killing of man by man 10
cease? Can you truthfully say you love
| your fellow man as you love yourself2'
! At first the big German sea warrior did
! not understand her, but when the words
were interpreted to him, he replied bend
ing over the wrinked hand which still
was I'm his:
Dear madam, this war had TO be.
After that perhaps there will be another
great conflict"
As the Pennsylvania left her ways, the
Prnz Eltel beside which was the Presl-
dents yacht Maynower on which the Sec
retary of the Navy's party arrived,
sounded u blast from her whistle In salute
of the newborn superdreadnought
SECRETARY DANIELS ADDRESS.
Secretary Daniels in his speech at to-
days luncheon at Fortress Monroe, In
honor of tho launching of the PennsylVa-
MIA, called the attention of the word |
to the fact that the United States now
has the strongest warship ahoat, and de-
clared the American navy never was so
powerful, so ready, or so efficient as now.
"our new Pennsylvania, with its dis
placement of 3l,400 tons and speed OF
q knots, carrying IL 14-inch guns" ho
said, rs a more powerful battleship than
the Queen Elizabeth, of which much has
recently been published. Tho Queen
Elizabeth, Englands most powerful bat
tleship. is OF 27,50O tons displacement. She
carries eight 15-lnch guns, in four turrets
of two guns. Although the guns of the
Queen Elizabeth are one inch larger than
the guns of the Pennsylvania, the total
weight of shells fired in one broadsde OF
IL guns from the Pennsylvania Is about
% per cent. greater than the amount
thrown by one broadsde of the eight
guns from the Queen Elizabeth; and while
the speed of the Queen Elizabeth is four
knots greater than that of the Penn
sylvania, the armor protection of the
is considerably greater than
that of the Queen Elizabeth, and the
speed of England's later dreadnoughts
will be about the same as the Penn
sylvania's.
"The Japanese battleship Fuso, now ]
,uildng, approaches the Pennsylvania S
more nearly in size than any other for 7
ign battleship. She Is of 10000 tons dis g
placement, with a speed of 81 knots. She
arries II 1-inch guns, in six turrets OF |
wo guns each The four turret arrange !
ncnt on the Pennsylvania is regarded
Preferable to the six turret arrangement !
m the Fuso. j
THE launching of tho Pennsylvania is L
ne of many concrete proofs of the S
trength, effectiveness and steady develop I
lent of the navy of 1915. we shall take L
ave to be strong upon the sea in the L
iture as in the past, declared Presi- n
ent Wilson In his December message to b
ongress in outlining the duty of America i
The motto of the navy of today is c
raining, training and more training; p
rGctice and more practice Nothing else
eeps ships and men fit. Today they are Is
and ready" rr. l.
WILL CARRY 1925 MEN" \,
The Pennsv1vanio will be ,,,on,oa h,, ~
oGcers ana ',,''r" r WI pg manned by = =
en-. The monster battIesbin Ell iaoi. -
err great turrets ana ours h,,t sira n
ne drasSod t,S M suns put she =
al naaJo 'oo%y %S III 'Iabs ana bunting II
l her will be hurried thai She MAJ =,
ION take her nIaca IN +La S nay II
the fleet. ~
When the Pennsylvania was designed H.
lJl2 no naval Power had contem- II
ated so formidable Il craft. But since ~,
en Great Britain has designed and IT,
lshed to completion the Queen Eliza -
~" 2..u others of her class. The Queen ":
i@abeth has eight 15-inch guns. "
neither she would be more than a
atch Tor the Pennsylvania is a prob
III LOT naval theorists, and probably
NJ NJ "outu ny agree on the answer
he sPeed or the Pennsylvania will bn
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