The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-03-27
DREADNAUGHT IDAHO
GREATEST NAVAL SHIP
FIGHTING MACHINE
IN WORLD SAYS HER PROUD
COMMANDER.

THE battleships Nevada, Utah, Flor
ida, Delaware, Wyoming, Arkansas,
Oklahoma and North Dakota are con-
sidered first class lighting ships. Only
a few years ago they were launched,
and America acclaimed them the last
word in warship construction and the
best ships afloat, but if that entire
grand fleet met the Idaho, Uncle Sans
latest fighting craft and gave battle.
there would be nothing left of them
except wreckage and a few surviving
sailors, says the Public Ledger of
Philadelphia, on March s.
The Idaho, with it's great guns,
could steam in a circle and sink the
entire fleet without getting so much
as a scratch, for not gun aboard any
Of the so-called crack dreadnaughts
could land a shell on the giant fighting
craft
So far as the older fighting ships are
concentrations launched 10 years or
more ago-the Idaho could give battle
to all of them.
Strategy Unchanged.
Naval strategy is just the same to-
day as in the days of John Paul Jones
Briefly, it is the trick of hitting the
enemy with the greatest amount of
shells before he hits you. The Idaho
fills the bill, for not only has the craft
been fitted with the longest range guns
in the world. but her great speed, more
than rs miles an hour. permits her to
stay out of the range Of any battle
ship aflOat.
Says Capt. C. T. vogelgesang, COM
mander of the ship: 1.-THE Idaho Is the
greatest lighting machine in the world.
There is not a ship in our navy or any
other navy that can touch her. The
average first class battleship can be
sunk by the guns of the Idaho at
distance of IL miles, and lighter craft
sent to the bottom at a distance of 10
miles,"
AS he stood on the bridge of this
wonderful ship Capt. Vogelgesang
watched an army of workers make fin
al adjustments of electrical signal and
steering apparatus.
Don't forget that this fine lady was
built and equipped in Philadelphia,
he said. '"To be technical, might say
Camden, but the two cities are virtu-
ally one, so we won't haggle over such
niceties. 1t is an achievement, though,
that is worthy of great city, and
Philadelphia has cause for boasting
when this warship steams down the
Delaware"
Will Carry 1900 Men.
The ship will proceed to New York
at an early date, and then will start
Oil her maiden cruise. The crew OF
400 men is assembled.
There are other navy ships, but just
one Idaho, and, view the craft from
any angle you wish, 1t is impossible to
describe her without drawing on your
store of adjectives AS Skipper Vogel-
gesang puts 1t:
'The Idaho is the biggest, mightiest
and grandest ship that floats"
| To substantiate such a statement,
consider that the Idaho mounts IL IA
inch guns. These are arranged in four
turrets Of guns each. Two turrets
are forward and two aft, but these
are so arranged that the entire battery
can be fred at one time.
What these great guns are capable
of doing can be drawn from the work
Of our navy guns in France.
Power Of Guns.
They had a range Of more than 80
miles. The Idaho shooters are Of sim
liar proportions, but Of shorter range
Each gun hurls 15Oo-pound projectile
through the air at the rate Of $500 feet
per second, and is capable Of firing