Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1915-06-18
MIGHTY SHIP READY
FOR LAUNCHING


Arizona:
Length over all, COS feet.
Extreme breadth. 81 feet " inch.
Draft on trial, 90 feet 10 inches.
Trial displacement, 31,400 tons.
Full load displacement, 32.567 tons.
Indicated horse power, 31,5O0.
Speed on trial. 81 knots.
Cost when completed, $16,000.000.
NEW YORK, June Unsurpassed
by none and equaled only by her own
sister ship, the Pennsylvania, Ameri.
cas- latest and greatest warship. tn"
battleship Arizona, is ready for her
initial plunge into the waters of the
East River The launching will take
place at the Brooklyn Navy Ward TO.
morrow and will be one of the most
notable naval events that has taken
place in this vicinity in long time
Secretary Daniels and other high OF
ficials of the Navy Department at
Washington, host of naval officers
from the ships of the Atlantic fleet
and the various naval stations alon"
the North Atlantic coast, together with
4 distinguished official party from the
state of Arizona, will be here To vii.
ness the launching.
AS the great hulk slides down the
ways, Miss Esther Ross, a pretty, Sev.
enteen-year-old Miss from Prescott
Arizona, will utter the words. 1 chris
ten thee Arizona. At the same time
she will swing a beribbonrd bottl"
crashing against the steel bow Of the
big ship. But instead OF the Gust"
mary champagne, the bottle will con
tain water taken from the first iiCw
over the great spillways OF the RoOsC-
welt dam in Arizona. The aubstitn-
ton OF water fer wine VAS decided
of the fact that Arizona is a prohi-
bition state. The departure from ,h,
| traditional custom is not alO2Ghcr tC
the liking of Uncle Sans jarEies. bu.
as one of them remarked at the Brook
lyn yard today, perhaps il won't
make any great difference. after all. "
When the Arizona is completed, II.
the spring of next year, it will be tin
most powerful fighting machine ever
| built, with the exception of the Penn
sylvania, now nearing completion Il
Newport News. In tonnage these
ships will have no equal In weight
of metal thrown at one broadStdc, only
the Fu-So. building for the Japanese
navy will equal them. The Queen
Elizabeth OF the British navy, which
has teen rumored to have been lost
recently in the fighting about the Oar
danelles. is the only battleship carry
| ing heavier guns. those of the British
ship being fifteen inches, while those
of the Arizona and Pennsylvania are
fourteen inches. While the former is
hurling eight of its monster shells al
the enemy each Of the American ships
can send twelve 10 the brOadsidc. ca
ly one inch less in diameter.
| Theoretically the fifteen.inCh guns
should carry farther than the fourteen
inch, but in battle at effective range,
with equal accuracy Of gunncry. tho
heavier broadside will decide the is
sue. experts claim.
| Germany is building the Ersat2
Worth and three sister ships. which
will carry fiftecn.inch guns and be OF
the same general class as the Queen
Elizabeth.
| Only in speed will the Arizona rate
lower than her rivals. Its great tur.
bines. developing n 81 800 horse power
will send its 3l,4O0 tons through the
sea at a rate of twcnty-Onc knots an
hour. The Queen Elizabeth develops
$4,000 horse power, giving u speed -
| twenty-five knots an hour The lat
est German dreadnoughts are eXpec.
ted to go twenty.three knots and the
Japanese vessels about the same
speed.
In addition to her main battery of
fourteen.inch guns, the Arizona will
carry second battery of % flvc.inch
guns. Her crew will number more
than 1000 officers and men. At The
present time she Is about so per cent
completed and in an emergency could
be made ready to take her place at
the head of the Atlantic fleet within
the next six months.
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