The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-06-13
AMERICA TO HAVE
MARINE GOL|ATHS
Five BattIecruisers Proposed Will
Biggest and Most Powerful
Ships AfIoat


house Of representatives has made the
! prrurrpuI item of the navy bill Just
rrp"ttrd viii be the most powerful
vessels "f their class nfoat when finally
placed IN commission. Each Of thps,
: NV, monsters will have tonnag,
Of 1000 tons, win be expected &c
ir'".rp II speed of thirty five knot,
and viii have an armament of either
ten fuurtecu-inch or eight sixteen inrl
| rrrr~. The matter Of armament is still
urulrr discussion by the naval exprrt'
Of IT., Navy Department who have beer
engaged on the plans for this type OF
naval vessel ever since the addition of
! hattlr cruisers to the United State,
nav, was first suggested
II tn" fuurteen-inch gun is decided
on the new craft will be as powerfully
ARMED rs any of the dreadnoughts OF
thr beet, as the Nevada and the OK
roh"ma. which have just finished the
trial runs, each mount only ten four
'rru.rnrh guns. The dreadnOught Penn
sylvauia which is to 90 into cOmmis
sion late this month is the first of the
drcuda"ughts to carry as many a.
Ni'lN' l'ul lttH-lHCH guns.
Most Expensive Ever
Thr plans for the now craft, if the
/ rourtrru.inch rife is selected, call for
four turrets for each cruiser, two to
carry three guns and two to carry
two guns.
! In the matter of expenses the bat.
| tie cruisers will be the most expensive
war~hips ever constructed. As the es-
! Inmates Of the bureau of construction
and repair submitted to the naval com
mite" Of the house call for an expcn-
diturc of 500, 433, 53l for each Of them.
This means that the total expenditure
for battle cruisers under the House Bill
will lie $l02,l67 ,655.
This sum will not be spent in one
YER. II will be spread over period
Of three years, the money to be- ap,
pr"pratCd as fast as it is needed to
carry forward the construction. The
Navy Department estimates that
%G,1G5 600 should be appropriated for
the first years work on each of the
five ships. or nm annual expenditure of
$33 $4,000 per battle cruiser con,
-tructrOn.
$l5,0G0,00O Without Equipment.
Ih" first plans submitted TO the Navy
Department were dated last October
and called fnr a sum Of $l7, 800, 900 for
'urh battle cruiser but the revised plans
show an increase of nearly $3,0O0,0OO
per cruiser. This increase is due in
uUrt to thr increase in War material
~ part t" increases in cost of guns
and urr"r and to Il detailed checking
Of The original plans. The battle cruz
Ftrs viii each cost 5,00O,0 900 before q
cent ~ spent on guns or armOr. The
hull will cost $1,000. 900 and the ma
.hinery 5000, 900 for each. The guns
and armor Of each battle cruiser will
cost $5.433,53I -
II j. estimated that the dreadnoughts
California and Tennessee, which were
authorized in 1918 and are TO be started
late this summer, will each cost about
$i5,0GD,000. Thus the hull and ma
chinery of each Of the proposed new
battle cruisers will cost as much as the
hull, machinery, guns and armor of the
California or Tennessee. The total cost
Of the fiv" battle cruisers will be great
er than the total cost of all the real
drcadnOughtS now with the Atlantic
fleet, which are approximately worth
500, 900, 900.
Atlantic Fleets Cost
What il cost to build them is of
ficallr given as follows:
Delaware, authorized 1906, cost
$S,O69,2Ol.
North Dakota, authorized 1907, cost
$S.5l0,44l.
FLORIDA, authorized 1908, cost
$40, l.GG7.
Utah, authori2rd 1908, cost 81, ! SO $40.
Arkansas, authorized 1909, cost
1891 ,OS5
Wyoming, uuthoriz"d 1909, cost
80. 800, 5l4.
New York, authorized 1900, cost
81. O47,5A5.
Texas, authorized 1910, cost $lO,736,,
PIG.
The Okl"hama. the latest addition
to the fleet, authorized in 1911, cost
Approximately $II 900 O0O. The Neva.
da a ike amount. The dreadnought
Pennsylvania and the Arizona cost
i II O00 600 rurh
Three of the famous Orrg0ns could
be built for the cost Of one of the
new proposed ships.
Foreign Warship Cost.
The unit cost Of so ABA 3l of the
projected American battle cruisers may
be compared with the cost of some of
the principal capital ships recently
completed ns follows:
British drradnomght Superb, cOmplet-
ed 1909. $500 tons, total cost So, So, 1873
British battle cruiser Lion, complet-
ed 1919. 3G.&Io tons, total cost
$40 Cdr JiD