The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1915-01-23
Sketch Of E9 Topeddng German Destroyer and Lieutenant Commands MAJ K Horon,B British Navy

feet long, this length being necessary
both to install the more powerful pro-
polling machinery and to find space for
the Increased equipment or reserve tor
pedoes and extra torpedo tubes.
The new fleet submarine will have
its own wireless outfit and will have a
cruising radius of about $500 miles at
twenty-one knots speed. 1t also will
have rapid fire guns for self defense
and will carry enough %torpedoes to sink
q modern feet of Dreadnoughts.
Bids for the new vessel were opened
at the navy department on Dec. ID.
The confidential plans and specifica-
tons for this powerful new craft were
placed in the possession of builders
who were at liberty to bid upon the de-
sign submitted by the department or to
modify the design and submit bids ac-
cOrdingly. The cost of the new type
of submarine will be about $1.25O.O0O.
1t is to be built under the naval APP
preparation act enacted by the pres
ent congress-. containing an appropri-
alton of $4,460.0O0 for eight or more
submarines and carrying a clause that
failed to attract public attention. This
clause directed the navy department to
construct a fleet submarine of not less
than twenty knots speed.
Because of its size. which will be
that of a large torpedo boat destroyer,
the new type of vessel has been term
ed a submarine destroyer and also as a
diving destroyer by laymen in the de-
partment familiar with the govern
ment's plans. But naval constructors
and high ranking officers in the navy
insist that it is not a destroyer, but dis
inctly a new type Of submarine. their
word being a fleet submarine" but
the whole idea is that it will be able
to go anywhere that an ocean going de-
stroyer or the battleship feet may go.
1t was learned that both France and
England contemplate the construction
Of similar feet submarines, but We're
keeping their plans secret. American
naval officers say the navy's submarine
knowledge has been so far developed
that the new submarine will he supe-
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contemplated abroad.
Will Replace D~estroyers.
In the British admiralty there is
growing belief that the fleet .subma-
rine will take the place of the destroy
er when the new type has been fully
developed. This idea is also held in
American naval circles. The idea of
the designers of the new craft is that
the fleet submarine will be able to do
in the daytime what the ocean going
d~estroyers accompanying a fleet are
expected to accomplish in an attack
on the enemy's feet at night.
The new fleet submarine. which will
be twice the size of the new MI type
authorized in 1912 and 1913 and is to
have a cruising radius of $500 TO 1000
knots, will have more than sixteen
knots speed when navigating under
water. The MI Is designed for a ra-
dius of about $500 knots and eleven
knots speed on the surface and for
about 40 miles at five knots under the
surface. The new feet submarine will
have double the surface speed and ear
~ three times the underwater speed
OF those previously authorized for the
American or foreign navies.
Torpedo Defense Guns.
The torpedo defense guns to be
mounted on tine new fleet submarine
do not involve Q rev idea. All the