Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-10-19
NAVY DEPARTMENT AWARD
or CONTRACTS GIVEN OUT
Means lmnetiiate Construction OF
Sixteen Submarines and Six
DeStrOyerS.
NORFOLK YARD TO BUILD ONE
This Is in Pursuance of Governments
Policy to Equip Its Own Plants to
Highest Point of Efficiency I'm Time
of Peace.


WASHINGTON. October lS.--Con-
tracts for sixteen submarines and six
destroyers were awarded to-day by the
Navy Department.
one destroyer will be built at the
! Norfolk Navy-Yard and one al the
Mare Island yard. and four OF the sub
marines will he built OH the Pacific
Coast, The Brcmerton. Washington
and The Portsmouth. n. H.. Navy Yards
each will build one.
The four destroycrs to he built at
private yards were awarded as fol-
lows:
Crainp " Sons Co. two. at $4,000
each
Seattle Construction and Dry Dock
Company, one. ut 1885,. 900.
Bath Iron Works. one. at sS7G.a0O.
The destroyer to he built at the Marc
Island Navy Yard will cost S7G2,G3s.
and the one at the Norfolk yard,
2I06.305
The total Of the cost is s4.293.443.
The limit of cost imposed by Congress
was $4,000" each. or total OF
$5.5C0,0C0
The vessels will have Il minimum
speed Of thirty knots per hour.
Delivery is from eighteen to twenty
months
The submarine contracts awarded to
private firms We're as follows:
Electric Boat. eight. at $4,000 each
Lake Torpedo-Boat Company, three.
at sJi5. 900 each
California Shipbuildiug Company.
Long Beach. Cal. uukc company. de-
signs three. ut $5iS,JG0 each.
1T is interesting to note" said Score
iary Daniels In awarding the contracts.
that the six dc&t"oyer% and sixteen
submarines constitute the greatest
number OF contracts for new construc-
ton ever awarded i'll the history OF
the Navy Department at one time.
CONSTRUCTION or DESTROYERS
IN COVER INTENT NAVY-TARDS
The order tor the construction of
one ut the dcstrOyers at each OF the
Mare Island and Norfolk yards is in
pursuance Of the department. policy
OF cQu!ppins and developing our navy
Yards 10 the highest point OF efficiency
IN times of peace. so that they may
hc prepared for tho greater strains
which would be thrown on these or
@anaatioEs III time OF war"
In general features and character
is,icS, :hc submarines represent small
aGNanc" III size, but II much greater
advance in efficiency. The designs pro-
pose improved engines of the heavy
OIL types, aud greatly improved stor-
age batteries, those advances having
been made possible by general de-
v"lopmcnts iii engineering science and
Wy cNtendcd experience in previous
submarines Of the United States Navy
The principal characteristics OF the
No IL
DeSiroycrS--Icngt 80 l-o feet;
beam. thirty feet seven inches; draft.
e!Gh; feet: displacement. l.l2J tons.
'pccG, thirty knots. Each will have IA
battery of lou" four-inch rapid fire
rifles two antiaircraft guns, four
triple toipcdo tubes TO discharge the
heaviest and longest range torpcdocs
now built. They will be propelled by
steam turbines, oi! fuel, fired water
tube boilers.
uhm"r!mcs-Spccd. fourteen knots
on surface ana ten submerged; dis
placement. $50 tons. Each will carry
IN addition TO the torpedo tubes.
three inch disappearance rifle for sur
face lighting. They will have oil en-
2Inc@ tor cruising Ola the surface and
batteries 70" propulsion when sub
merged.