The Arvada enterprise., 1923-10-25

SolorhuO state Hng HES on ner one
hundred and fifty Colorado boys are among the
and more are going. Reproductions OF Col.
Orado scenery ndorn her The silver service pre-
sented by the state to the old Colorado (nOw the
Pueblo) IL on board.
For other reasons the Colorado is OF particular
interest to the nntion-and to the world. "A vast
experimental laboratory OF marine engineering" ="
she has been called. and II IL said Of her: Though
she Is primarily fighting machine. she need never
hre shot nj the enemy TO earn her cost OF $27.-
100000 many times over for her country" II ap
pears that the most advanced designs Of ship
equipment have been Installed In the Colorado
and the results Of their test will be placed ut the
disposal Of American shipbuilders for their guild.
ance In building the national merchant marine and
the future navy
Electric motor-driven propellprs. 1SOOlhorse-
power turbine generators, and oil-burning boilers
are part Of the advanced construction that Is said
TO make this - tao-ton superdrea dnaught signih.
cant to marine engineers. Further unusual fea-
lures include these: From forward speed OF
twenty-onc knots the Colorado can be brought up
standing In three minutes. Her eightccn.inch ar.
mor-pate ls supposed to be proof against sub.
marines and air bombs. well Ms direct fire With
verttable hOneycomb Of water-tight compartments
she must he literally shot TO pieces before she can
he sunk. Eight l8.inch guns In two forward and
two after turrets (the largest permitted by the
Washington conference) drop eight tons Of
steel and high explosives on the deck OF IN enemy
twenty miles away-enough TO put out Of commits
aion anything anoat. A captive observation bal.
loon and several scout slrplaneS are also carried
Six men In the control.room far down between the
two 1900 horsepower turbo. electric generators
and the four $500 horsepower electric propeller
motors, control every movement Of these two ri.
santic mcchanisms. and every other important mn.
chine, on orders from the bridge.
Another thing that adds to the interest In III.
Colorado II the fact that She with her sister ship
the West virginia. Is the last superrrcn,,nuurht
which the United States will undertake for four.
teen years, under the Five. Power Nuynl treoty
That means that she may be the last ~ her kind
either bccnus" OF universal peace or because by
that time the capital ship mny b. wholly futile
for the purposes OF war.
The third Colorado was designated as Hn,,l.
ship No. - Counting from the first in IN. nov
navy, authorized In the building program of An,
- 1916. 10 be Of 32,JNp tons trial DISPLACEMENT.
eight slNtccninch guns In four center line turrcs
Wrl'" hNe-lnch guns FOR torpedo defense eight
nn,inircrai, guns and two ,orpedo tuhcs liz,
main machinery is designated 10 at,nln twenty.
on" knots with about 5000 horsepower two main
'urpih' generators of Westinghouse type driving
motors on four shafts one screw on each She ia
hrih"rct on Ia" waternc. ,urrcts. coming tower
ana smoke up'akcs, She uses only fuel oil and her
steering engine" anchor windlnss and most otl cr
auxiliary machinery are electric driven She will
mount caiapult FOR launching nirplnncs and rrn.
orally have all improvements OF tho hes, naval
practice,
Al the Washington conference on the reduction
~ armnmcn's. the Colorado and the West viryinlu
were on The lis, offered II uncomplctcd ships to
hc scrnppcd. bu, the japanese were so bent on re-
tanning their newest battlcship. Muisu. at the time
AL but completed that n new scrnpping program
wns made, by which the Colorado md West vir
rinin were TO be completed and the two Oldest
dreninauehts, Delaware and North Dakota much
smaller 'csse's. would then be scrapped. the re-
sll''' ionhnS" ofrse,,inI the japanese Increase